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English
Oxford University Press
12 September 2017
"""Pray, pray be composed,"" cried Elinor, ""and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.""For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune nor connections. Concerned for others and for social proprieties, Elinor is ill-equipped to compete with self-centred fortune-hunters like Lucy Steele, whilst Marianne's unswerving belief in the truth of her own feelings makes her more dangerously susceptible to the designs of unscrupulous men.

Through her heroines' parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope, Jane Austen offers a powerful analysis of the ways in which women's lives were shaped by the claustrophobic society in which they had to survive."

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Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Height: 223mm,  Width: 145mm,  Spine: 32mm
Weight:   458g
ISBN:   9780198807452
ISBN 10:   0198807457
Series:   Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Pages:   336
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London. He has previously edited editions of Daniel Defoe's Roxana (2008) and Samuel Johnson's The Lives of the Poets for Oxford World's Classics. He is the author of What Matters in Jane Austen? (Bloomsbury, 2012), Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Faber & Faber, 2008), and How Novels Work (OUP, 2006).

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