Sense And Sensibility

Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is allcalmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common senseopinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionateand romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense - or for middle-agedmen of thirty-five, long past the age of marriage.True love can only be felt by the young, of course. And if your heart is brokenat the age of seventeen, how can you expect ever to recover from the passionatemisery that fills your life, waking and sleeping?Austen, Jane is the author of 'Sense And Sensibility ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780194230735 and ISBN 0194230732.