Resumo de Sense And Sensibility

ABOUT THE AUTHOR :
Jane Austen (1775-1817). Jane Austen is the English novelist generally credited with first giving the novel its modern character through her treatment of the details of everyday life in provincial English middle-class society. She was born on December 16, 1775 at the parsonage of Steventon, in Hampshire, a village of which her father was rector. She was the youngest of seven children. In 1801, the family moved to Bath, where they lived until 1805 when, upon the death of her father, the family moved first to Southampton and then to Chawton in 1809. It was in Chawton that her major works were composed, although she had begun as a child to write for family amusement.
Jane Austen's best-known work, Pride and Prejudice, was written in 1797-98, although not published until 1813, two years after the publication of Sense and Sensibility. Her three other books belong to a later period -- Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion being written between 1811 and 1816. Mansfield Park was published in 1814 and Emma in 1816 -- during Ms. Austen's lifetime. All were anonymously published, a state of affairs presumably agreeable to Ms. Austen's retiring nature. Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818, at which time Austen's brother revealed her true authorship.
It is a truth universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." This famous quotation, the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice, demonstrates not only her inimitable style and ironical humor, but also her typical subject matter. Austen depicted with a sympathetic imagination the lives of minor landed gentry, country clergymen, and families in various economic circumstances struggling to maintain or enhance their social position. The most urgent preoccupation of her young, well-bred heroines and heroes is courtship and marriage. Her interest lay in life's little conundrums of sentiment and conduct.
She exercised her dramatic and humorous skills in a faithful and sympathetic rendering of the life she knew -- provincial family life of the middling-rich English gentry. She had no predecessors in this genre and no rivals. Although recognition came slowly to Austen, her fan club has grown hugely and steadily, counting many intellectuals and celebrated writers among its members. Virginia Woolf called her the most perfect artist among women.Macauley idolized her genius, considering Mansfield Park to be her greatest novel. Sir Walter Scott described her as having "the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment." And Disraeli was reported to have read Pride and Prejudice seventeen times.
For a woman of such genius, Austen lived a remarkably quiet life. She did not marry, nor did she allow her literary work to interfere with her domestic duties. Indeed, she seldom left home at all, except on short visits, chiefly to Bath. Nevertheless, although largely restricting her dramatic and humorous capabilities to a searching observation of the manners of provinicial English society, she is considered an English classic and one of the greatest novelists of all time. She died on July 18, 1817, and was buried in Winchester Cathedral. At the time of her death, she was working on an unfinished novel, Sanditon, which was published in 1925.

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