Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen’s first published novel, about two sisters, sensible Elinor Dashwood and impulsive Marianne, who move with their widowed mother to a cottage in Devon and must find their way in love with little money.

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Famous quotes

• People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

  Chapter IIIn context

  • Comedy
  • Money

• “I am afraid,” replied Elinor, “that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”

  Chapter XIIIIn context

  • Morality

• “Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”

  Chapter XVIIIn context

  • Character

• Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience⁠—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

  Chapter XIXIn context

  • Happiness
  • Hope

• Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

  Chapter XXXVIIn context

  • Clever Jabs
  • Debate

Contents

1. Chapter I
2. Chapter II
3. Chapter III
4. Chapter IV
5. Chapter V
6. Chapter VI
7. Chapter VII
8. Chapter VIII
9. Chapter IX
10. Chapter X
11. Chapter XI
12. Chapter XII
13. Chapter XIII
14. Chapter XIV
15. Chapter XV
16. Chapter XVI
17. Chapter XVII
18. Chapter XVIII
19. Chapter XIX
20. Chapter XX
21. Chapter XXI
22. Chapter XXII
23. Chapter XXIII
24. Chapter XXIV
25. Chapter XXV
26. Chapter XXVI
27. Chapter XXVII
28. Chapter XXVIII
29. Chapter XXIX
30. Chapter XXX
31. Chapter XXXI
32. Chapter XXXII
33. Chapter XXXIII
34. Chapter XXXIV
35. Chapter XXXV
36. Chapter XXXVI
37. Chapter XXXVII
38. Chapter XXXVIII
39. Chapter XXXIX
40. Chapter XL
41. Chapter XLI
42. Chapter XLII
43. Chapter XLIII
44. Chapter XLIV
45. Chapter XLV
46. Chapter XLVI
47. Chapter XLVII
48. Chapter XLVIII
49. Chapter XLIX
50. Chapter L