Introduction and Notes by Profesor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University. 'Young women which have no economic or political power must attend to serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humor lays bare stratagems, hypocrisy a poignancy inherent v struggle z dvoch veľmi rôznych sesters to achieve respetability. Sense a Sensibility je delightful komedie mužov v ktorých sestry Elinor a Marianne predstavujú tieto dve kvality. Elinor charakter je jeden z Augustan detachment, pri Marianne, ako fervent disciplíny romantický age, learns k curb jej passionate prírody v interests survival. Táto kniha, prvý z novín z Austenu sa publikovala, remains ako čerstvý a cautionary ešte dnes as it ever was.