Sense and Sensibility

Name: Sense and Sensibility
Author: Jane Austen

by Jane Austen

Romance contrasting rational judgment with emotional sensitivity through two sisters' experiences

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Jane Austen

Austen perfected the novel of manners, using irony and free indirect discourse to anatomise provincial English society with devastating precision. Her six completed novels remain among the most beloved and critically admired works in the language.

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