Sense and Sensibility

An Annotated Edition

Jane Austen

Edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks

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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50

ISBN 9780674724556

Publication Date: 10/01/2013

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448 pages

9 x 9-1/2 inches

93 color illustrations

Belknap Press

World

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Patricia Meyer Spacks is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Virginia.

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