Sense & Sensibility (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. Sisters coming of age amid Regency courtship, London scandal, and entailment—a sharp satire of manners, marriage, and money.By Jane Austen
Length3h 24m
About this audiobook
Sense & Sensibility (1811) traces Elinor and Marianne Dashwood from dispossession at Norland Park to Barton Cottage and London, staging the friction between prudence and passion in ties with Edward Ferrars, Colonel Brandon, and John Willoughby. In poised irony and early free indirect style, Austen reworks the sentimental novel into a comedy of manners alert to money, rank, and reputation, exposing entail and primogeniture as engines that commodify feeling. A clergyman's daughter from Hampshire (1775–1817), Austen began the tale in the 1790s as the epistolary "Elinor and Marianne," revising it at Chawton before publishing anonymously as "By a Lady." Family brushes with financial insecurity and long observation of gentry sociability, conduct books, and circulating‑library fiction sharpen her ethical realism and her measured skepticism toward fashionable displays of sensibility. Read this novel for a lucid account of how hearts and fortunes are schooled by society. It welcomes newcomers to Austen's art while rewarding scholars of the British novel, gendered economics, and narrative technique. Wise, witty, and unsentimental about sentiment, Sense & Sensibility remains a bracing study of sisterhood, prudence, and desire under the constraints of custom, capital, and reputation.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, Romance
Length3 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 12, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
2Introduction
27CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
3Synopsis
28CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
4Historical Context
29CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
5Author Biography
30CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
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6CHAPTER ONE
31CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
7CHAPTER TWO
32CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
8CHAPTER THREE
33CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
9CHAPTER FOUR
34CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
10CHAPTER FIVE
35CHAPTER THIRTY
11CHAPTER SIX
36CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
12CHAPTER SEVEN
37CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
13CHAPTER EIGHT
38CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
14CHAPTER NINE
39CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
15CHAPTER TEN
40CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
16CHAPTER ELEVEN
41CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
17CHAPTER TWELVE
42CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
18CHAPTER THIRTEEN
43CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
19CHAPTER FOURTEEN
44CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
20CHAPTER FIFTEEN
45CHAPTER FOURTY
21CHAPTER SIXTEEN
46CHAPTER FOURTY-ONE
22CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
47CHAPTER FOURTY-TWO
23CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
48CHAPTER FOURTY-THREE
24CHAPTER NINETEEN
49CHAPTER FOURTY-FOUR
25CHAPTER TWENTY
50CHAPTER FOURTY-FIVE
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