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Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

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With the title of _Sense and Sensibility_ is connected one of those minor problems which delight the cummin-splitters of criticism. In the _Cecilia_ of Madame D'Arblay--the forerunner, if not the model, of Miss Austen--is a sentence which at first sight suggests some relationship to the name of the book which, in the present series, inaugurated Miss Austen's novels. 'The whole of this unfortunate business'--says a ce…

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  • AuthorJane Austen
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #21839
  • Length120,895 words · 8h 04m of reading
  • Chapters58
  • DictionaryNot yet generated
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-28

Contents

58 chapters

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  1. 01NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
  2. 02INTRODUCTION
  3. 03Mr. Dashwood introduced him _Frontispiece_
  4. 04They sang together
  5. 05Amiably bashful
  6. 06Introduced to Mrs. Jennings
  7. 07Opened a window-shutter
  8. 08It _was_ Edward
  9. 09CHAPTER I
  10. 10CHAPTER II
  11. 11CHAPTER III
  12. 12CHAPTER IV
  13. 13CHAPTER V
  14. 14CHAPTER VI
  15. 15CHAPTER VII
  16. 16CHAPTER VIII
  17. 17CHAPTER IX
  18. 18CHAPTER X
  19. 19CHAPTER XI
  20. 20CHAPTER XII
  21. 21CHAPTER XIII
  22. 22CHAPTER XIV
  23. 23CHAPTER XV
  24. 24CHAPTER XVI
  25. 25CHAPTER XVII
  26. 26CHAPTER XVIII
  27. 27CHAPTER XIX
  28. 28CHAPTER XX
  29. 29CHAPTER XXI
  30. 30CHAPTER XXII
  31. 31CHAPTER XXIII
  32. 32CHAPTER XXIV
  33. 33CHAPTER XXV
  34. 34CHAPTER XXVI
  35. 35CHAPTER XXVII
  36. 36CHAPTER XXVIII
  37. 37CHAPTER XXIX
  38. 38CHAPTER XXX
  39. 39CHAPTER XXXI
  40. 40CHAPTER XXXII
  41. 41CHAPTER XXXIII
  42. 42CHAPTER XXXIV
  43. 43CHAPTER XXXV
  44. 44CHAPTER XXXVI
  45. 45CHAPTER XXXVII
  46. 46CHAPTER XXXVIII
  47. 47CHAPTER XXXIX
  48. 48CHAPTER XL
  49. 49CHAPTER XLI
  50. 50CHAPTER XLII
  51. 51CHAPTER XLIII
  52. 52CHAPTER XLIV
  53. 53CHAPTER XLV
  54. 54CHAPTER XLVI
  55. 55CHAPTER XLVII
  56. 56CHAPTER XLVIII
  57. 57CHAPTER XLIX
  58. 58CHAPTER L

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