书名：Sense and Sensibility理智与情感
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1180
作者：Jane Austen
出版社名称：Penguin English Library
出版时间：2012
语种：英语
ISBN：9780141199672
商品尺寸：12.8 x2.0 x19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：404 （以实物为准）

Sense and Sensibility《理智与情感》以两个性格迥异的姐妹为主人公，讲述了姐妹两人的爱情经历。用对比的手法，表现了姐姐埃莉诺的理智与沉稳，妹妹玛丽安的热情与感性。从而反映了当时英国乡村社会的世俗人情和婚恋的价值取向。世界经典文学名著，英语学习者和文学爱好者的藏书之爱。
推荐理由：
★英国女作家简·奥斯汀富于幽默情趣的处女作，很值得一读；
★世界经典名著，外国经典文学小说书籍，英文原版无删减，呈现原汁原味的英语名著；
★全书以喜剧开头，悲剧发展，终以喜剧收场，是一则以细腻笔触和生动对白见长、讲述没有富裕嫁妆的少女的婚恋故事；
★此版本为Penguin English Library 版本，附加托尼·泰纳版赏析，有助于读者理解小说内容。
Jane Austen wrote the original draft of Sense and Sensibility around 1795 at the age of nineteen, and published it in 1811. This classic tale takes place in southwest England and follows the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, who are reduced to meager means when their father passes and entrusts his fortune to their half brother, John. Now available as part of the Word Cloud Classics series,Sense and Sensibility, a story of love, romance, and heartache, is a must-have addition to the libraries of all classic literature lovers.

Sense and Sensibility《理智与情感》情节围绕着两位女主人公的择偶活动展开，着力揭示出当时英国社会潮流中，以婚配作为女子寻求经济保障、提高经济地位的恶习，重门第而不顾女子感情和做人权利的丑陋时尚。小说中的女主角均追求与男子思想感情的平等交流与沟通，要求社会地位上的平等权利，坚持独立观察、分析和选择男子的自由。在当时的英国，这几乎无异于反抗的呐喊。
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, better known as a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England, London and Kent between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.

简·奥斯汀（1775年12月16日－1817年7月18日），19世纪英国小说家，世界文学史上很具影响力的女性文学家之一，代表作有《傲慢与偏见》、《理智与情感》等。她的作品主要关注乡绅家庭女性的婚姻和生活，以女性特有的细致入微的观察力和活泼风趣的文字真实地描绘了她周围世界的小天地。
Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels which interpret, critique and comment upon the life of the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Her most highly praised novel during her lifetime was Pride and Prejudice, her second published novel. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY理智与情感
Volume One第一卷
Volume Two第二卷
Volume Three第三卷
‘Sense and Sensibility’ by Tony Tanner托尼·泰纳心中的《理智与情感》

(Chapter One)
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.
The old Gentleman died; his will was read, and like almost every other will, gave as much disappointment as pleasure. He was neither so unjust, nor so ungrateful, as to leave his estate from his nephew;—but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed half the value of the bequest. Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself or his son:—but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most needed a provision, by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods. The whole was tied up for the benefit of this child, who, in occasional visits with his father and mother at Norland, had so far gained on the affections of his uncle, by such attractions as are by no means unusual in children of two or three years old; an imperfect articulation, an earnest desire of having his own way, many cunning tricks, and a great deal of noise, as to outweigh all the value of all the attention which, for years, he had received from his niece and her daughters. He meant not to be unkind however, and, as a mark of his affection for the three girls, he left them a thousand pounds a-piece.