Sense and Sensibility

Elinor Dashwood at nineteen has more common sense than is good for her. Marianne not yet seventeen wears her heart on her sleeve. When Marianne is swept off her feet by a young man with a gun only to be let down with a bump the violence of her reaction lays the family open to ridicule. Elinor facing an emotional crisis of her own must suffer in silence. But quiet Colonel Brandon has in his gift something that is more useful than he can possibly know and he becomes instrumental in the fate of both girls as Elinor finally has reason to rejoice and Marianne is induced to put aside her rooted antipathy to second attachments.If you have ever expected Jane Austens novels to be difficult to read the Line Clear Edition is the one for you. Here is Jane Austens classic novel in Jane Austens words made approachable by clear type and a clear layout modern spelling and modern typography. The innovative chapter titles and contents list derived from the text will guide the familiar reader back to favourite passages without revealing the plot to a new reader.The cover image is taken from a Cassini Old Series map using mapping first published by the Ordnance Survey between 1828 and 1831 (only a few years after Jane Austens death) and is reproduced by kind permission of Cassini Publishing Ltd. The front cover is centred on Exeter the county town of Devon. Barton where the Dashwoods make their home after quitting Sussex is stated in the novel to lie four miles north-east of Exeter. One of the eight or more real Bartons in Devon is to be seen to the left of the title block.