Sense and Sensibility (Vintage Classics) Book

In its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, Sense and Sensibility is the answer to those critics and readers who believe that Jane Austenâ??s novels, despite their perfection of form and tone, lack strong feeling. Its two heroinesâ??so utterly unlike each otherâ??both undergo the most violent passions when they are separated from the men they love. What differentiates them, and gives this extroardinary book its complexity and brilliance, is the way each expresses her suffering: Marianneâ??young, impetuous, ardentâ??falls into paroxysms of grief when she is rejected by the dashing John Willoughby; while her sister, Elinorâ??wiser, more sensible, more self-controlledâ??masks her despair when it appears that Edward Ferrars is to marry the mean-spirited and cunning Lucy Steele. All, of course, ends happilyâ??but not until Elinorâ??s â??senseâ? and Marianneâ??s â??sensibilityâ? have equally worked to reveal the profound emotional life that runs beneath the surface of Austenâ??s immaculate and irresistible art.Read More