{"product_id":"sense-and-sensibility-9780198793359","title":"Sense and Sensibility","description":"For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune nor connections. Concerned for others and for social proprieties, Elinor is ill-equipped to compete with self-centred fortune-hunters like Lucy Steele, while Marianne's unswerving belief in the truth of her own feelings makes her more dangerously susceptible to the designs of unscrupulous men. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough her heroines' parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope, Jane Austen offers a powerful analysis of the ways in which women's lives were shaped by the claustrophobic society in which they had to survive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Mullan\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at University College London. He has previously edited editions of Daniel Defoe's \u003cem\u003eRoxana\u003c\/em\u003e (2008) and Samuel Johnson's \u003cem\u003eThe Lives of the Poets\u003c\/em\u003e for Oxford World's Classics. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWhat Matters in Jane Austen?\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2012), \u003cem\u003eAnonymity: A Secret History of English Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (Faber \u0026amp; Faber, 2008), and \u003cem\u003eHow Novels Work\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2006).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50597374722322,"sku":"9780198793359","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c13fb92f-1c4f-40a5-a04a-dcf6f83a8612.jpg?v=1732177715","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sense-and-sensibility-9780198793359","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}