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Auction Ends: 12/15/00

High Bidder: gfajuri@umich.edu

Seller: Ye Old eBay Web Masters

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This tome serves as the perfect companion to another auction in this category, a copy of Austen's seminal, humorous novel, Emma. Sense and Sensibility, Austen's first novel, was published in 1811, after having been serialized in the late 18th century in a magazine. This tome offers readers all serialized chapters of the original work, bound together as one for the utmost convenience. Sense and Sensibility tells the story of the impoverished Dashwood sisters. Marianne is the heroine of "sensibility" - of openness and enthusiasm. She becomes infatuated with John Willoughby, who seems to be a romantic lover but in reality is an unscrupulous pleasure seeker. He deserts her for an heiress, leaving her to learn a dose of "sense" in an entirely unromantic marriage with Colonel Brandon, a bachelor, 20 years her senior. On the other side of the coin rests Marianne's older sister, Elinor, the guiding light of "sense," (prudence and discretion) who ends up married to her lover, Edward Ferrars. The novel presents a fascinating study in the differences between the two sisters and the ways in which they choose to go about their lives and make decisions. Values are challenged in the face of love, and the sisters are forced to make decisions that forever change their lives. Less humorous than Emma, this tome serves as a shining moral example for readers and at the same time, as a pleasant diversion for them. But like all of Austen's works, this one is not free from satire or witty comments concerning the main characters or even the peripheral ones. The picture of the author below is from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery of London, and is circa 1810.

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