Austen, Jane

Presents Austen's novel in which Fanny, a girl of low social rank brought up on her wealthy relatives' estate, feels the sharp sting of rejection when her cousin Edmund, the only person who treats her as an equal, is won over by an unprincipled London girl; and includes explanatory notes and appendices on social status, dancing, the British Navy, and the play "Lovers' Vows.".

Two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between them, and true love finally triumphs.

Two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love, but their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between them, and true love finally triumphs.

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.