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‘Beautifully designed… Perfect collectable gift for Austen fans and design devotees’ So Darling

Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father’s death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success are thwart with disappointment but together they attempt to find a way to happiness.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA SEGAL

VINTAGE CLASSICS AUSTEN SERIES – all six of Jane Austen’s major novels, beautifully designed and introduced by our finest contemporary writers.

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I am a great admirer of Jane Austen -- Alexander McCall Smith The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste -- Virginia Woolf The technique of [Jane Austen's novels] is beyond praise.... Her mastery of the art she chose, or that chose her, is complete -- Elizabeth Bowen Jane Austen is my favourite author -- E.M. Forster Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire -- J.K. Rowling