TY - BOOK ID - 77945642 TI - Sense and sensibility PY - 2008 SN - 177541163X 9781775411635 9781775411635 PB - [Waiheke Island] Floating Press DB - UniCat KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - English Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77945642 AB - When Mr. Dashwood dies, he leaves his second wife and her three daughters at the mercy of his son and heir, John. John's wife convinces him to turn his step-mother and half-sisters out, and they move to a country cottage, rented to them by a distant relative. In their newly reduced circumstances Elinor and Marianne, the two eldest daughters, wrestle with ideas of romance and reality and their apparent opposition to each other. Elinor struggles in silent propriety, while Marianne is as violently romantic as her ideals. Life, however, teaches the girls to balance sense and sensibility in their approach to love and marriage. ER -