Sense And Sensibility

Jul 17, 2025 2:59 AM

Author:Jane Austen

Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised later, was completed in 1797 at the age of twenty-two. This meticulously constructed story of two sisters with opposing temperaments and romantic inclinations exemplifies the distilled spirit of classicism in English literature.

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A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel

—— John Carey , Sunday Times

It is a vindication of the role poetry can fulfil as a source of inspiration and encouragement

—— Glasgow Herald

Generals tend to win their reputations at the cost of other men's lives. By an anomaly unique in military history Wavell's own reputation has reached its widest range - certainly in the English-speaking world - not because of his prowess as a soldier or a proconsul, but because of his identification with a small miscellany containing a selection of other men's verses

—— Ronald Lewin

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