Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen · 1811

Two sisters — the prudent Elinor and the romantic Marianne — navigate love and loss and learn to temper feeling with sense.

Books mentioned in Sense and Sensibility (1)

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare: ““We have never finished Hamlet, Marianne; our dear Willoughby went away before we could get through it.”

Books that mention Sense and Sensibility (4)

• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides: “a brief examination of Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and Sense and Sensibility”
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield: “"Wuthering Heights—you've read that?" 'Mm-hmm.' 'And Jane Eyre?' 'Mm.' "Sense and Sensibility?" 'Hm-m.'”
• Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse by Faith Sullivan: “Nell opened the copy of Sense and Sensibility she'd come across in Bender's Second Hand.”
• Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “So, in Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen speedily and almost offhandedly dispatches Mr. Dashwood.”