Sense and Sensibility

Name: Sense and Sensibility
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9781844563395

Author: Jane Austen

Narrator: Kate Winslet

Abridged: 3 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 06/05/2006

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

The reduced circumstances of the Dashwood family cast a shadow over the romantic aspirations of daughters Elinor and Marianne - who must learn to mix sense with sensibility in approaching their problems with both money and men.

(P)1995 Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks

About Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born in 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, where her father was rector. When she was 25 the family moved to Bath till her father's death in 1805, then to Chawton in Hampshire where Jane lived with her mother and sister. She wrote six novels. Sense and Sensibility was first in 1811, then Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma(1816). Northanger Abbey and Persusaion were both published posthumously, in 1817. Jane Austen died in 1817. Well-received during her lifetime, since her death she has become known as not just one of the greatest writers of English fiction, but one of the most beloved.

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