Reason and Emotion

Author: Jane Austen
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Sense and Sensibility is the first novel of the renowned British female writer Jane Austen. Eleanor and Mary Ann, two sisters, grow up in a respectable English gentry family. The elder sister is good at controlling emotions with reason, while the younger sister often acts without restraint in matters of the heart. Therefore, when they encounter setbacks in love, they react differently. This book and the author's other masterpiece Pride and Prejudice are considered sister novels, both narrating the stories of young women without wealthy dowries falling in love and getting married with delicate brushwork and vivid dialogue.