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Sense and sensibility / Jane Austen ; with a new inroduction by Margaret Drabble.

by Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.

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New American Library, c1997.

Young women -- England -- Fiction.

Courtship -- Fiction.

Sisters -- Fiction.

Social classes -- England -- Fiction.

England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Penguin classics

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Modern Library classics.

9781848373099 (2013 Arcturus Publishing trade pbk.)

9780062015631 (2011 HarperTeen trade pbk.)

9781435145009 (2012 Sterling Publishing hc.)

9780199535576 (2008 reissue Oxford unitersity Press trade pbk.)

0330029495 (1950? Pantheon Books)

9780307290939 (2006 Premier Classics pbk.)

0140430474 (1969 Penguin English Library)

0451521854 (1980 Signet Classic pbk.)

0192815016 (1980 Oxford World's Classics trade pbk.)

0553211102 (1982 Bantam Classics pbk.)

0192827618 (1990 Oxford world's classics)

9780679409878 (1992 Everyman's Classic Library hc.)

0679409874 (1992 Everyman's Classics Library hc)

0451187903 (1995 Signet/Penguin pbk.)

9780140434255 (1995 Penquin Classics trade pbk.)

0140434259 (1995 Penguin Classics trade pbk.)

9780141439662 (1995 Penguin Classics)

0141439661 (1995 Penguin Classics)

0812543122 (1995 Tor pbk.)

0486290492 (1996 Dover Thrift edition trade pbk.)

1552670953 (1996 Prospero Classics Library/Barnes & Noble hc)

0451525892 (1997 Signet Classic pbk.)

0192833588 (1998 Oxford World's Classics trade pbk.)

0375756736 (2001 Modern Library trade pbk.)

9780307290939 (2006 Premier Classics trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

Sense & sensibility

1 v. (various pagings).

First published in 1811.

1969 Penguin English Library edition is edited with an introduction by Tony Tanner.

1980 Signet Classic paperback edition has an afterword by Caroline G. Mercer and with and unpdated bibliography.

1982 Bantam Classics paperback has an afterword by Patricia Meyer Spacks.

1990 Oxford world's classics edition is edited by James Kinsley ; with a new introduction by Margaret Anne Doody ; notes by Claire Lamont.

1992 Everyman's Classics Library hardcover has an introduction by Peter Conrad and includes bibliographical references.

1995 Penguin Classics edition is editied with an introduction by Ros Ballaster ; with the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner.

1995 Signet/Penguin paperback has a new introduction by Margaret Drabble.

1995 Penguin Classics trade paperback is edited with an introduction by Ros Ballaster.

1996 Prospero Classics Library/Barnes & Noble hardcover has an introduction by Paul Montazzoli.

"The 1997 Signet Classic paperback edition is based on the second edition of Sense and Sensibility which was revised by Miss Austen."--p. 317.

1998 Oxford World's Classics trade paperback is edited by James Kinsley and Claire Lamont.

2001 Modern Library trade paperback edition has an introduction by David Gates with commentary by Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Claire Tomalin.

2008 reissue Oxford unitersity Press trade pbk. edition is edited by James Kinsley with an introduction by Margaret Anne Doody and notes by Claire Lamont.

2012 Sterling Publishing hardcover edition has an introduction and notes by Jennifer C. Garlen.

2013 Arcturus Publishing trade paperback edition has an introduction by Brian Busby.

Novel tells the story of the impoverished Dashwood sisters. The open and enthusiastic Marianne becomes infatuated with John Willoughby, who seems to be a romantic lover but is in reality an unscrupulous fortune hunter. He deserts her for an heiress, and she eventually makes a sensible marriage with Colonel Brandon, a staid and settled bachelor. Marianne's older sister, the prudent and discreet Elinor, is constant toward her lover, Edward Ferrars, and, after some distressing vicissitudes, marries him.

Historical fiction.

Classic fiction.

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