Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen Vintage Classics Series)

以風格清新的手繪質感紋樣與字體設計
讓備受喜愛的珍奧斯汀 擁有當代的輕快

舒適好讀的略寬開本、可親觸感，
讓眼球和捧讀的雙手 都能體驗閱讀的感動──

6本書的紋樣設計兩兩成對，封面與內襯互為表裡，別具巧思和趣味；
每本書皆特邀當代作家專文引介，讓珍奧斯汀的鐵粉們以真誠的熱情，
與你一起重新進入雋永的小說之中。

這是適合閱讀，更值得收藏的版本，
全系列收錄珍奧斯汀歷來最受喜愛的6本書：

Pride and Prejudice《傲慢與偏見》
Sense and Sensibility《理性與感性》
Emma《艾瑪》
Northanger Abbey《諾桑覺寺》
Persuasion《勸服》
Mansfield Park《曼斯菲爾德莊園》

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA SEGAL

　　The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion.

　　Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire' J. K. Rowling

　　Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success are thwart with disappointment but together they attempt to find a way to happiness.

作者簡介

　　Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma(1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.

　　Francesca Segal is a journalist and writer. Her debut novel, The Innocents, was awarded the 2012 Costa First Novel Award among many other prizes.

　　Leanne Shapton is an illustrator, author and publisher based in New York City. http://leanneshapton.com/