Celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday with this beautiful gift edition of her first novel, the story of the Dashwood sisters, in urgent need of financial security in the form of husbands. It comes complete with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and is finished with a silk ribbon. Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after 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.