Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility

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Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, the epitome of sense, desires a man who is promised to another woman. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the epitome of sensibility, loses her heart to a scoundrel who jilts her. True love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility. Sense and Sensibility, the first of Jane Austen's major novels, is a portrait of two very different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Elinor is practical and disciplined, Marianne capricious and emotional, yet they share a toubled and impoverished family background, and both must struggle to achieve the happiness they deserve...