{"product_id":"sense-and-sensibility-1","title":"Sense and Sensibility","description":"\u003cb\u003eTwo sisters of opposing temperaments who share the pangs of new love provide the theme for Jane Austen's dramatically human narrative.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy but like everybody else it must be in my own way.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Elinor, practical and conventional, is the perfection of sense. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, is the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheir mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters--and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense. Jane Austen's authentic representation of early-nineteenth-century middle-class provincial life, written with forceful insight and gentle irony, makes her novels the enduring works on the mores and manners of her time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction by Margaret Drabble\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eand an Afterword by Mary Balogh \u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Jane Austen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52025379717421,"sku":"BS-8XD-531018","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/9780451531018-HD.jpg?v=1777303288","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/sense-and-sensibility-1","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}