The Penguin edition of the novels of Jane Austen p. vii
Chronology p. ix
Introduction p. xi
Further reading p. xxxii
Note on the text p.xxxvi

Two sisters of oppositing temperaments who share the pangs of tragic love provide the theme for Jane Austen's dramatically human narrative Sense & Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, is the perfection of sense. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, is the embodiment of sensibility. To each come the sorroe of unhappy love. Elinor desires a man who is promised to another. Marianne loses her heart to a scoundrel who jilts her. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters - and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sentibility and sensibility gives way to sense. jane auten's authentic representation of early-nineteenth-century middle-class provincial life, written with forceful insight and gentle irony, makes her novels the enduring works on the mores and manners of her time.

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