Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility CD jacket cover

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen


Jane Austen published Sense and Sensibility under the pseudonym, “A Lady” in 1811. It is an epistolary novel (a story told in letters) written to deepen and expand what had been a character sketch of two sisters, Elinore and Marianne Dashwood. It is significant that reviews of the novel often start with its title in various attempts to discern Austen’s view regarding the supremacy of “sense” or “sensibility” in the process of choices to be studied and decisions to be made. “Sense” and “sensibility” are other words for the age-old and on-going polar tension between one’s reason and one’s emotions—the Classical world view versus the Romantic world view. By 1811 England had already embarked upon a Romantic movement with the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge. After the Age of Reason and its many failures, including the devastation of the Napoleonic wars, there was a growing desire to return to nature in its purity, youth in its innocence and the heart as governor of man’s reason. Sense and Sensibility, in the comings and goings of the Dashwood sisters as they seek their way to happiness, picks up on the transition and sets forth the field of endeavor where characters make their way under the light of reason or feelings. It is not a novel to solve a problem since there is no problem to be solved. Rather it is a novel that presents one of the most basic facts of the human condition: we are creatures of thoughts and feelings, creatures of reason and emotion, creatures of impulse and consideration. The miracle is that Austen’s novel intuits and presents all of this so thoroughly. (Summary by Michael Hogan)

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Product Details

Read by: Karen Savage
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Type: Solo reading
Media: MP3 CD
Package: CD jacket
Item No.: CJ-1025
EAN: 0686175923261
List Price: $9.99

Credits

Production

Book Coordinator: Elizabeth Klett
Meta Coordinator: Mary Anderson
Proof Listener: Ans Wink

Artwork
Cover: Painting of Miss Harriet Beechey by Sir Henry William Beechey
DVD Inset: Colorized versionof the posthumous engraving of Austen published in the 1869-70 Memoir
DVD Insert: Ch 4 of Sense and Sensibility, Edward admires Elinor’s drawing as a lover, not as a connoisseur of picturesque. By C. E. Brock 1908

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Table of Contents

Track Chapter Length
Track Chapter Length
01 01 - Chapter 01 9:41
26 26 - Chapter 26 13:02
02 02 - Chapter 02 11:51
27 27 - Chapter 27 13:21
03 03 - Chapter 03 9:38
28 28 - Chapter 28 7:39
04 04 - Chapter 04 11:48
29 29 - Chapter 29 20:57
05 05 - Chapter 05 6:20
30 30 - Chapter 30 15:29
06 06 - Chapter 06 7:34
31 31 - Chapter 31 21:21
07 07 - Chapter 07 7:18
32 32 - Chapter 32 13:36
08 08 - Chapter 08 7:36
33 33 - Chapter 33 15:21
09 09 - Chapter 09 10:55
34 34 - Chapter 34 14:13
10 10 - Chapter 10 12:48
35 35 - Chapter 35 12:31
11 11 - Chapter 11 8:40
36 36 - Chapter 36 15:45
12 12 - Chapter 12 9:20
37 37 - Chapter 37 23:02
13 13 - Chapter 13 12:16
38 38 - Chapter 38 14:35
14 14 - Chapter 14 8:38
39 39 - Chapter 39 10:05
15 15 - Chapter 15 14:56
40 40 - Chapter 40 13:48
16 16 - Chapter 16 11:21
41 41 - Chapter 41 13:29
17 17 - Chapter 17 9:27
42 42 - Chapter 42 9:30
18 18 - Chapter 18 8:40
43 43 - Chapter 43 17:37
19 19 - Chapter 19 15:21
44 44 - Chapter 44 28:57
20 20 - Chapter 20 12:21
45 45 - Chapter 45 11:10
21 21 - Chapter 21 15:00
46 46 - Chapter 46 15:34
22 22 - Chapter 22 14:40
47 47 - Chapter 47 12:55
23 23 - Chapter 23 12:48
48 48 - Chapter 48 7:24
24 24 - Chapter 24 11:08
49 49 - Chapter 49 22:01
25 25 - Chapter 25 9:42
50 50 - Chapter 50 13:10

 

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