Jane Austen's first published novel in which, thanks to her manipulative daughter-in-law, Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters must leave their beloved family home in Sussex for a small cottage in Devon. While Marianne, impulsive and passionate to the core, falls madly in love with an unsuitable man, her more conventional sister, Elinor, struggles to hide her true feelings for the man she must try to forget.
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"With an excerpt from 'Jane and Me: My Austen Heritage' by Caroline Jane Knight" -- from front cover.