Sense and Sensibility
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Sense and Sensibility
| Author | Jane Austen |
|---|---|
| Published | 1811 |
| Pages | 409 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Austen’s first published novel sets Elinor Dashwood’s restraint against her sister Marianne’s candour without letting either win outright — the argument is that judgment and feeling are both required and that neither is sufficient. |
Sense and Sensibility
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, the Substack writer’s 468-title curriculum (December 2025), in the Ages 13–99+ band under Fiction.
About this edition
The Dashwood sisters are turned out of their family home by the workings of inheritance. The opening chapters, in which a brother talks himself step by step out of the provision he promised his dying father, are one of the sharpest things in English fiction about how people rationalise. Austen (1775–1817) wrote an early epistolary version titled Elinor and Marianne; the revised novel appeared in 1811 under the byline “By a Lady.”
Connections
- Jane Austen — the author.
- Pride and Prejudice — the novel that followed, also on this list.
- Marriage
- Literature
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.