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
30CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
2Introduction
31CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
3Synopsis
32CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
4Historical Context
33CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
5Author Biography
34CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
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6CHAPTER ONE
35CHAPTER THIRTY
7CHAPTER TWO
36CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
8CHAPTER THREE
37CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
9CHAPTER FOUR
38CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
10CHAPTER FIVE
39CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
11CHAPTER SIX
40CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
12CHAPTER SEVEN
41CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
13CHAPTER EIGHT
42CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
14CHAPTER NINE
43CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
15CHAPTER TEN
44CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
16CHAPTER ELEVEN
45CHAPTER FOURTY
17CHAPTER TWELVE
46CHAPTER FOURTY-ONE
18CHAPTER THIRTEEN
47CHAPTER FOURTY-TWO
19CHAPTER FOURTEEN
48CHAPTER FOURTY-THREE
20CHAPTER FIFTEEN
49CHAPTER FOURTY-FOUR
21CHAPTER SIXTEEN
50CHAPTER FOURTY-FIVE
22CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
51CHAPTER FOURTY-SIX
23CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
52CHAPTER FOURTY-SEVEN
24CHAPTER NINETEEN
53CHAPTER FOURTY-EIGHT
25CHAPTER TWENTY
54CHAPTER FOURTY-NINE
26CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
55CHAPTER FIFTY
27CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
56Analysis
28CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
57Reflection
29CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
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