Sentido y Sensibilidad / Sense and Sensibility (Commemorative Edition), Hardcover

La pongo al par de Shakespeare, Cervantes y Henry Fielding.

Henry James

En Sentido y sensibilidad, Jane Austen explora con sutileza e ironia las opciones de la mujer en una sociedad rigida, donde el exito o el fracaso dependen de la eleccion del marido. La historia se centra en dos hermanas, Elinor y Marianne, cuyas personalidades antagonicas ejemplifican dos posibles respuestas femeninas ante la hipocresia dominante: el sentido comun y la sensibilidad. Sin embargo, tanto un camino como el otro entranan sus peligros.
Esta edicion incorpora una cronologia detallada y recupera la introduccion de la edicion original de Penguin Clasicos a cargo de Tony Tanner, uno de los mayores especialistas en la obra de Jane Austen, a cuyo estudio dedico gran parte de su carrera. Fue catedratico de literatura inglesa y norteamericana en la Universidad de Cambridge.

Venga, entre amigos no hay secretos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo.

Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love. This edition also includes explanatory notes and textual variants between first and second edition. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.