书名：Sense and Sensibility 理智与情感
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1180
作者：Jane Austen 简•奥斯汀
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2003
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141439662
商品尺寸：13 x 2.5 x 19.6 cm
包装：平装
页数：382

Sense and Sensibility《理智与情感》是简·奥斯汀于1811年出版的处女作，原名为《《埃莉诺与玛丽安》，全书以细腻的笔触和生动的对白叙述没有富裕嫁妆的少女恋爱结婚的故事，和Pride and Prejudice《傲慢与偏见》堪称姐妹篇。本书适合有一定英文水平的书迷或英语学习者阅读。
推荐理由：
1.小说巧妙构思，极富幽默情趣，反讽的笔墨随处可见，本书虽为简奥斯汀的首部作品，但写作技巧已相当成熟；
2.在这部作品中，简奥斯汀对妇女问题进行了高度现实主义的探讨，生动地描写了女性意识由感性向理性转变的过程，尤其适合女性读者阅读；
3.采用现实主义创作手法，着眼于对现实生活的真实刻画，跨越了当时风靡英国的感伤主义，写作风格独具特色，文学爱好者必读；
4.本书由牛津大学教授Ros Ballaster作序，书后附词汇注释，有助于读者理解原文。
Two very different sisters find themselves thrown into an unkind world when their father dies.Marianne, wild andimpulsive, falls dangerous in love, whileElinor suffers her own private heartbreak but conceals her true feelings, even from those closest to her.Jane Austen’s subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world where rigid social convention clashes with the impulses of the heart.
This is the only version ofSense And Sensibility to be based on the first-edition text of 1811, as originally published.
Edited with an introduction by ROS BALLASTER, University of Oxford

埃莉诺和玛丽安娜两姐妹生在一个英国乡绅家庭，姐姐善于用理智来控制情感，妹妹的情感却毫无节制，因此面对爱情时，她们作出了不同的反映……小说以这两位女主角曲折复杂的婚事风波为主线，通过“理智与情感”的幽默对比，提出了道德与行为的规范问题。
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.

Jane Austen简·奥斯汀（1775-1817），19世纪英国女性小说家。生于英国小乡镇史蒂文顿的一个牧师家庭，几乎从未接受过正规教育，但由于家庭文学空气熏陶而成为作家。其作品主要描绘她在狭小生活圈子里所熟悉的中产阶级的家庭生活，青年男女的恋爱婚姻及其心态，具有观察细致，人物刻画惟妙惟肖，评论尖刻等艺术特色。其一生共创作了六部小说，分别是《理智与情感》《傲慢与偏见》《曼斯菲尔德庄园》《爱玛》《诺桑觉寺》《劝导》。
JANE AUSTEN was born on December 16, 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on July 18, 1817.
As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.
ROS BALLASTER is professor in Eighteenth-Century Studies in the Faculty of English Literature, Oxford University, and teaches atMansfield College. Her Seductive Forms:Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740 (Oxford University Press) was published in 1992 and Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785 (Oxford University Press) in 2005. She has also edited Delarivier Manley’sNew Atalantis forPenguin Classics.
CLAIRE LAMONT is EmeritusProfessor ofEnglish Romantic Literature at Newcastle University.

Introduction
Chronology
Further Reading
The Novels of Jane Austen
Sense And Sensibility
Note on the Text
Emendations to the Text
Textual Variants between the First and Second Editions
Notes

The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner, as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman’s days were comfortably spent. His attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence.
By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present lady, three daughters. The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his mother, which had been large, and half of which devolved on him on his coming of age. By his own marriage, likewise, which happened soon afterwards, he added to his wealth. To him therefore the succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, independent of what might arise to them from their father’s inheriting that property, could be but small. Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the remaining moiety of his first wife’s fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only a life interest in it.