Sense & Sensibility (Summarized Edition)

Sense & Sensibility (1811) traces Elinor and Marianne Dashwood from dispossession at Norland Park to Barton Cottage and London, staging the friction between prudence and passion in ties with Edward Ferrars, Colonel Brandon, and John Willoughby. In poised irony and early free indirect style, Austen reworks the sentimental novel into a comedy of manners alert to money, rank, and reputation, exposing...