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Sense and Sensibility

By Jane Austen

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Cover: Portrait of the Maistre Sisters by Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835), 1796 · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0

Sense and Sensibility (working title: Elinor and Marianne) is the debut novel by English author Jane Austen, appearing in 1811. It was published anonymously: By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. The novel is probably set between 1792 and 1797 and follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother as they are forced to leave the family estate in Sussex and move to a modest cottage on the property of a distant relative in Devon. There the two eldest girls experience love and heartbreak that tries the contrasting characters of both.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Chapter 1
  2. 2: Chapter 2
  3. 3: Chapter 3
  4. 4: Chapter 4
  5. 5: Chapter 5
  6. 6: Chapter 6
  7. 7: Chapter 7
  8. 8: Chapter 8
  9. 9: Chapter 9
  10. 10: Chapter 10
  11. 11: Chapter 11
  12. 12: Chapter 12
  13. 13: Chapter 13
  14. 14: Chapter 14
  15. 15: Chapter 15
  16. 16: Chapter 16
  17. 17: Chapter 17
  18. 18: Chapter 18
  19. 19: Chapter 19
  20. 20: Chapter 20
  21. 21: Chapter 21
  22. 22: Chapter 22
  23. 23: Chapter 23
  24. 24: Chapter 24
  25. 25: Chapter 25
  26. 26: Chapter 26
  27. 27: Chapter 27
  28. 28: Chapter 28
  29. 29: Chapter 29
  30. 30: Chapter 30
  31. 31: Chapter 31
  32. 32: Chapter 32
  33. 33: Chapter 33
  34. 34: Chapter 34
  35. 35: Chapter 35
  36. 36: Chapter 36
  37. 37: Chapter 37
  38. 38: Chapter 38
  39. 39: Chapter 39
  40. 40: Chapter 40
  41. 41: Chapter 41
  42. 42: Chapter 42
  43. 43: Chapter 43
  44. 44: Chapter 44
  45. 45: Chapter 45
  46. 46: Chapter 46
  47. 47: Chapter 47
  48. 48: Chapter 48
  49. 49: Chapter 49
  50. 50: Chapter 50