TY - BOOK AU - Austen,Jane TI - Sense and sensibility SN - 9780307386878 (pbk.) AV - PR4034 .S4 2007 U1 - 823/.7 22 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Vintage Classics, KW - Inheritance and succession KW - Fiction KW - Social classes KW - Young women KW - Sisters KW - England KW - Love stories KW - gsafd N1 - T; 800; Lexile; T; Raz-Paz N2 - 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 -