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En esta novela se reúnen los tres cuadernos que Jane Austen escribió a muy temprana edad (13-14 años), y que ella misma llamó «volúmenes» y numeró colectivamente del I al III. Hay textos que no corri

In SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Jane Austen writes about two ways of looking at the world in the personalities of two sisters, Elinor the determinedly practical and Marianne the madly romantic. Forced to live in reduced circumstances with their widowed mother and younger sister, the Dashwood girls must rely on marrying well if they are to survive in the world, and the way in which this goal is eventually accomplished provides the plot of this delightful novel, the first of Jane Austen's to be published (1811). As SENSE AND SENSIBILITY progresses to the requisite happy ending, Elinor and Marianne and their suitors are subjected to a volley of misunderstandings, jealousies, and manipulations--and to Jane Austen's mercilessly satirical look at provincial life. As she herself stated, "Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on"--and in doing so, Austen perfected the comedy of manners, zeroing in on her characters and their relationship to the society in which they live--an achievement that brought her closer to the later novels of the Victorian era and the 20th century than to those that preceded her.

Austen's comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of 18-century drawing-room intrigues. Reissue.

In 1813, Jane Austen anonymously published her secondand arguably most popularnovel, "Pride and Prejudice," a romantic novel of manners. Originally written years earlier as "First Impressions," a manuscript she tried but failed to sell, the revised novel was met with instant success.Despite "Pride and Prejudice"s 19th-century setting, its biting wit, sharp eye for the nuances of human relationships, and opposites-attract romance continues to resonate with contemporary readers. The novel has become a fixture in popular culture and has been adapted into countless films, plays, and television series.Austens "Pride and Prejudice" centres on the conflict between marrying for love and marrying for economic reasons. None of Mr. Bennets five daughters can inherit his estate, so they are pressured into finding security in "good" marriages. Elizabeth Bennet, the main character, struggles with the societal pressures of marriage and resists Mr. Darcys advances and proposals. Eventually, however, she finds that she does love him, and for that reason, she decides to marry him."Pride and Prejudice" has consistently appeared near the top of lists of "most-loved books" among literary scholars and the reading public.

From the age of eleven, and perhaps earlier, Austen wrote poems and stories for her own and her familys amusement. In these works the details of daily life are exaggerated, common plot devices are parodied, and the "stories are full of anarchic fantasies of female power, licence, illicit behaviour, and general high spirits", according to Janet Todd. Austen later compiled fair copies of twenty-nine early works into three bound notebooks, now referred to as the Juvenilia, containing work written between 1787 and 1793. She called the three notebooks "Volume the First", "Volume the Second" and "Volume the Third", and they preserve 90,000 words she wrote during those years. The Juvenilia are often, according to scholar Richard Jenkyns, "boisterous" and "anarchic"; he compares them to the work of 18th-century novelist Laurence Sterne.Contents:Juvenilia Volume IJuvenilia Volume IIJuvenilia Volume III

"Sense and Sensibility" is a novel by English author Jane Austen that was published anonymously in three volumes in 1811 and that became a classic. The satirical and comic work offers a vivid depiction of 19th-century middle-class life as it follows the romantic relationships of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood."Sense and Sensibility" is about the Dashwood family of Sussex, England. They live in comfort and luxury at their home, Norland, until the death of Mr. Henry Dashwood. His wife and three daughters suddenly lose almost everything. Although Elinor and Marianne, the two eldest daughters, are opposite in every way, they find love even in the midst of adversity and loss.At the beginning of the story, we see the Dashwood family right at the loss of Mr. Henry Dashwood. He leaves behind a wife and three daughters, Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret, a younger sister of 13. As English law of the day dictates, women could not inherit property, and so all that the girls have known is bequeathed to Mr. Henry Dashwoods son from his first marriage, Mr. John Dashwood. John is fairly good-natured, but easily manipulated by his narrow-minded and selfish wife. The three girls inherit a thousand pounds each, but they are dependent on John to provide for them any additional money they might need. However, Johns wife, Fanny, slowly manipulates him into giving the girls very little on which to survive. This situation is the origin of the events to come...