Sense and Sensibility

Elinor Dashwood at nineteen has more common sense than is good for her. Marianne, not yet seventeen, wears her heart on her sleeve. When Marianne is swept off her feet by a young man with a gun, only to be let down with a bump, the violence of her reaction lays the family open to ridicule. Elinor, facing an emotional crisis of her own, must suffer in silence. But quiet Colonel Brandon has in his gift something that is more useful than he can possibly know, and he becomes instrumental in the fate of both girls as Elinor ï¬nally has reason to rejoice and Marianne is induced to put aside her rooted antipathy to second attachments.

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The cover image is taken from a Cassini Old Series map, using mapping ï¬rst published by the Ordnance Survey between 1828 and 1831 (only a few years after Jane Austen's death), and is reproduced by kind permission of Cassini Publishing Ltd. The front cover is centred on Exeter, the county town of Devon. Barton, where the Dashwoods make their home after quitting Sussex, is stated in the novel to lie four miles north-east of Exeter. One of the eight or more real Bartons in Devon is to be seen to the left of the title block.