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Sense and Sensibility (1811) follows the Dashwood sisters — the prudent, self-disciplined Elinor and the rapturous, unguarded Marianne — after their father's death turns them out of Norland and reduces them to a small cottage in Devonshire. Each sister falls in love; each is undone in turn by a man who is not free to love her back, and each must learn, by very different routes, what sense and sensibility cost. Austen's first published novel, and the opening movement of the moral comedy she would refine over the next six years.
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