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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

About 683 pages (205,018 words) in 36 products

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Quotations
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Sense and Sensibility Quotes
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Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen that was first published in 1811. It was the first of Austen's novels to be published, under the pseudonym "A Lady." People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them . . . He was not...


Author Biography

Name: Jane Austen
Birth Date: 1775
Death Date: 1817
Place of Birth: Steventon, England
Place of Death: Winchester, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, novelist, writer

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Biography of Jane Austen
1266 words, approx. 4.2 pages
The English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of the most important novelists of the 19th century. In her intense concentration on the thoughts and feelings of a limited number of characters, Jane Austen creates as profound an understanding and as p...
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Biography of Jane Austen
16199 words, approx. 54 pages
Jane Austen is one of the few novelists in world literature who is regarded as a "classic" and yet is widely read. As the contemporary novelist Fay Weldon puts it, for generations of students and the educated reading public in many countries, Austen's no...
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Biography of Jane Austen
12465 words, approx. 41.6 pages
Jane Austen stands not only as a novelist central to the Romantic period but as one of the supreme prose fiction writers of all literature written in English. Her many admirers include Henry James and Virginia Woolf, both of whom she influenced. Yet amid...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Sense and Sensibility Summary
7,522 words, approx. 25 pages
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in Hampshire County; she was the seventh of eight children of George Austen, a clergyman of the Church of England. Austen family tradition holds that an early version of...
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Sense and Sensibility Information
2,718 words, approx. 9 pages
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen, that was first published in 1811. It was the first of Austen's novels to be published, under the pseudonym "A Lady". The novel has been adapted for film and television a number of...


News and Journals
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Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
Sense and Sensibility.
12/29/2007: 468 words, approx. 2 pages
Sense and Sensibility New Year's Day, BBC2, 9.10pm Heaven knows what Jane Austen would make of the reverence in which she's held almost 200 years after her death. Doubtless she'd be flabbergasted, because although four of her books were published and critically...
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Artforum
Sense and Sensibility
10/01/2003: 3,704 words, approx. 12 pages
Sense and Sensibility GILLES DELEUZE'S FRANCIS BACON BY JOHN RAJCHMAN * GILLES DELEUZE'S FRANCIS BACON: THE LOGIC OF SENSATION IS IN ENGLISH AT LAST. IT IS STILL AS FRESH AS IT WAS WHEN IT FIRST APPEARED IN 1981, BUT PERHAPS WITH NEW RESONANCES...
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The Georgians: A Quick Quiz
10/8/2007: 266 words, approx. 1 pages
Question 1 of 10:The first monarch of the Georgian era, George I, couldn't speak English. True FalseQuestion 2 of 10: Britain 's first prime minister begin his tenure in 1721. But what was his name? Robert Walpole William Pitt the Elder Robert...
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Director Lee says he's socially awkward
10/6/2007: 277 words, approx. 1 pages
Oscar-winning director Ang Lee has tackled English period drama, kung fu and gay cowboy romance. Just don't expect him to make small talk at a dinner party.The Taiwanese native, who won a best director Oscar last year for the gay love story "Brokeback Mountain," said...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by David Kaufinann
11,024 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, Kaufmann discusses the language of law and the language of propriety as they apply to Sense and Sensibility.
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Critical Essay by Moreland Perkins
8,817 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Perkins advances the theory that Sense and Sensibility is Elinor Dashwood's story, not Marianne's, and argues that her special interest lies in her position as a female intellectual.
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Critical Essay by George E. Haggerty
7,711 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Haggerty argues that in Sense and Sensibility Austen is able to use the narrative to express "authentic feeling" (private desire) without hysteria and to investigate social behavior (public voice) without cool detachment and an abandonment of all emotion.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 92%
Jane Austen and a Character Analysis of "Sense and Sensibility"
7,239 words, approx. 24 pages
Information about the literary style of Jane Austen as seen in her six novels, including a plot summary of "Sense and Sensibility." Plus, a character analysis of Elinor, who believes one's heart should be controlled by good sense and moral principle, and her sister Marianne, who let's her heart guide her decisions.
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"Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen
3,148 words, approx. 11 pages
In the "Sense and Sensibility" Austen was particularly concerned with "the code of values and conduct" (Paris 74), giving a great emphasis on marriage and courtship, everyday social intercourse, and family relations, in relation to the destructive results of excessive sensibility and worldliness (Paris 80 - 81).
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The Metaphor Title of "Sense and Sensibility"
2,193 words, approx. 7 pages
In this novel "Sense and Sensibility," Jane Austen uses the title of the book to illustrate the differences between the two main characters: Elinor to represent sense and Marianne to represent sensibility. Sense and sensibility also indicates a split division, polar opposites, and how these opposites compliment each other.
 


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