Publisher Description
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.
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About Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775–1817) is considered by many scholars to be the first great woman novelist. Born in Steventon, England, she later moved to Bath and began to write for her own and her family’s amusement. Her novels, set in her own English countryside, depict the daily lives of provincial middle-class families with wry observation, a delicate irony, and a good-humored wit.
About Anna Massey
Anna
Massey (1937–2011), the daughter of Hollywood actor Raymond Massey, was born in
England and enjoyed an award-winning career on stage, in movies, and on television.
Her stage roles earned her the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award, the London
Critics’ Circle Theatre Award, and a nomination for a Tony Award for her only
Broadway appearance, in The Reluctant
Debutante. Her television awards include the UK’s BAFTA TV Award for Best
Actress and the RTS Television Award. Her best-known film roles were as Helen
in Peeping Tom, Babs in Alfred
Hitchcock’s Frenzy, and more recently
in The Oxford Murders and The Machinist. She received critical
praise from AudioFile magazine for
her narrations, especially of Cold
Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier, and Wild Swans
by Jung Chang.