It lacks the Standard Novels half title page. Contents: blank frontispiece vignette title title page dated 1833 Memoir pp xv text arranged in the original 3 volume style pp 1-331. There is wear to spine joints, spine ends and corners, with more noticeable wear at the front joint. The boards have had their marbled paper covering renewed, matching the original. It is in a largely contemporary half leather binding with small raised bands and decorative gilt compartments with title label to the spine. Richard Bentley first published this work as part of his Standard Novels series and it was much reprinted. A very good copy of the 1st single volume edition of Sense and Sensibility. A powerful drama of family life and growing up, Sense and Sensibility is at once a subtle comedy of manners and a striking critique of early nineteenth-century society.With original illustrations by the celebrated Hugh Thomson, this Macmillan Collector's Library edition also features bonus material by Jane Austen expert, Sophie Reynolds. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the epitome of sensibility, loses her heart to a scoundrel who jilts her. Elinor, practical and conventional, the epitome of sense, desires a man who is promised to another woman. Featuring beautiful, heritage wallpaper patterns from Jane Austen's own home in Hampshire, these collectable paperback editions are a must for all Jane Austen fans.Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Neuware - A special edition from the Macmillan Collector's Library a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.

The illustrations are by Philip Bannister, whose work for Folio includes Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier.Taschenbuch. This Folio edition is bound in gold cloth with a blocked slipcase to match the Folio editions of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbeyand Persuasion. Whoever Austen was, writes Ferrante, she was ’an extremely cultured, extremely perceptive lady who was well acquainted with the ways of the landed gentry, who knew the rituals of the London bourgeoisie, who was aware of how unstable the world is – of how everything changes in spite of sense and in the tumult of sensibility’. In her introduction to this edition, the best-selling Italian author Elena Ferrante – a notoriously private figure whose true identity remains unknown – suggests that Austen’s anonymity only makes her work more intriguing. It was published 16 years later, in 1811, at her own expense the only clue to the novel’s authorship was the inscription ’By a lady’.

Jane Austen began Sense and Sensibility when she was barely 20.

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