Sense and Sensibility

Resumen del libro

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her.

Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

Biografía del autor

Mary W. Shelley (Londres, 1797-1851), hija de los filósofos Mary Wollstonecraft y William Godwin, y universalmente famosa por esta novela, publicada en 1818, también escribió textos autobiográficos, de genero policiaco, distopías, libros de viaje, biografías y obras de teatro.