Sense and Sensibility

Resumen del libro

Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen's 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.

A powerful drama of family life and growing up, the novel is at once a subtle comedy of manners and a striking critique of early nineteenth-century society. Gorgeously illustrated by the celebrated Hugh Thomson, this Macmillan Collector's Library edition also includes an afterword by author and critic Henry Hitchings. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles.

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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.