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Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Original publication
1811
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
733
Difficulty
★★☆
Genres
Romance
Translated from
English

Book summary

Elinor and Marianne, two sisters with opposite temperaments, face the social and emotional constraints of their era. Elinor embodies reason and restraint, while Marianne follows her feelings with intensity. Their romantic experiences confront them with disappointment, expectations, and compromise. Through their paths, the story explores the balance between heart and mind. The author offers a subtle analysis of human relationships, blending irony, social observation, and controlled emotion.

The plot

A girl rescued by a stranger. Marianne Dashwood is seventeen and believes in true love. One day, caught in the rain, she runs back down a hill. She falls and twists her ankle. A young hunter puts down his gun, takes…

The world of the book

Four women without a fortune. The story is set in the English countryside in the 1790s. When the father dies, the Dashwood family estate goes to his son from a first marriage. His widow and three daughters move to a…

The author

Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817. Jane Austen grows up in a village in the south of England, where her father is the rector. Her family puts on comedies in the barn. As a teenager, she fills three notebooks with funny stories.…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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