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Sense and Sensibility (version 2)

This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriage prospect must make “sense” by bringing with it enough assets and income to permit the couple to continue to live in happy, idle leisure, complete with servants and a prestigious address. Provided one can find such a match among the eligible persons of the opposite sex, one then hopes for “sensibility”, or capacity for emotion, so that if love is not immediately to hand, it might come around later. And while these gentlemen and ladies make their hopeful pirouettes in the social eye, they must of course adhere to all the forms of civility.

Jane Austen writes of the family of a gentleman named Dashwood who dies and leaves most of his fortune to his son, with the understanding that he will “look out for” his mother and three sisters. When that son marries a grasping woman who convinces him that his sisters’ funds are suitable to their needs and so require no contributions from his inherited fortune, the sisters are left to play the game of “Sense and Sensibility” in earnest.

But all’s not fair in love. Carefully prepared “attachments” can and do go awry when gentlemen find other young women of greater fortunes than the Dashwood sisters. So, will they marry for love? Or money? Or perhaps, not at all? (Summary by Mark F. Smith)

Year of Publication: 1811Genres: Published 1800 -1900

Running Time: 13 hours 26 minutes 05 seconds(50 chapters)

Language: EnglishRead by: Mark F. Smith

#	Chapter Name
	Chapter 01 Mark F. Smith	11:31
	Chapter 02 Mark F. Smith	13:53
	Chapter 03 Mark F. Smith	10:57
	Chapter 04 Mark F. Smith	13:27
	Chapter 05 Mark F. Smith	7:13
	Chapter 06 Mark F. Smith	8:54
	Chapter 07 Mark F. Smith	8:50
	Chapter 08 Mark F. Smith	8:45
	Chapter 09 Mark F. Smith	12:27
	Chapter 10 Mark F. Smith	14:14
	Chapter 11 Mark F. Smith	10:18
	Chapter 12 Mark F. Smith	11:11
	Chapter 13 Mark F. Smith	14:05
	Chapter 14 Mark F. Smith	10:10
	Chapter 15 Mark F. Smith	17:00
	Chapter 16 Mark F. Smith	14:00
	Chapter 17 Mark F. Smith	11:34
	Chapter 18 Mark F. Smith	10:29
	Chapter 19 Mark F. Smith	19:04
	Chapter 20 Mark F. Smith	15:23
	Chapter 21 Mark F. Smith	19:23
	Chapter 22 Mark F. Smith	19:15
	Chapter 23 Mark F. Smith	16:19
	Chapter 24 Mark F. Smith	14:13
	Chapter 25 Mark F. Smith	12:56
	Chapter 26 Mark F. Smith	16:56
	Chapter 27 Mark F. Smith	16:57
	Chapter 28 Mark F. Smith	9:56
	Chapter 29 Mark F. Smith	26:14
	Chapter 30 Mark F. Smith	20:15
	Chapter 31 Mark F. Smith	25:29
	Chapter 32 Mark F. Smith	16:40
	Chapter 33 Mark F. Smith	19:50
	Chapter 34 Mark F. Smith	18:02
	Chapter 35 Mark F. Smith	15:53
	Chapter 36 Mark F. Smith	20:08
	Chapter 37 Mark F. Smith	28:20
	Chapter 38 Mark F. Smith	19:13
	Chapter 39 Mark F. Smith	13:06
	Chapter 40 Mark F. Smith	16:17
	Chapter 41 Mark F. Smith	17:03
	Chapter 42 Mark F. Smith	12:28
	Chapter 43 Mark F. Smith	24:10
	Chapter 44 Mark F. Smith	37:40
	Chapter 45 Mark F. Smith	15:04
	Chapter 46 Mark F. Smith	20:41
	Chapter 47 Mark F. Smith	16:01
	Chapter 48 Mark F. Smith	9:17
	Chapter 49 Mark F. Smith	27:30
	Chapter 50 Mark F. Smith	17:24