Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's debut work, is without a doubt one of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth century. Jane Austen, the woman born in 1775, draws, in a free style, with humor and extreme accuracy, realistic pictures of the men and women of her society, taking into account their character, social conditions, personal aspirations and feelings, presenting to the reader a concentrated charge of pleasure and emotion that makes this novel one of the masterpieces of world literature. After the death of Mr. Dashwood, his wife and three daughters are forced to give up their luxurious lifestyle and migrate to the country. Starring the two eldest daughters: the rational Eleanor and the romantic Marianne, the novel follows their love lives. Through the central theme of marriage, Jane Austen sheds light on a range of existential themes such as the position of women in society, the social hypocrisy within the aristocracy, the English environment at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the importance of lineage and money in these societies, as well as the place of love: the eternal question that It presents itself to this day.

446 pages