Is there an audiobook of Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition)?

Yes. Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Wendy Ellison Mullen.

How long is the Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) audiobook?

The Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) audiobook runs 12 hr 35 min.

Is Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) on Kindle Unlimited?

No. Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 17, 2026.

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Our score

4.5/ 5

Outstanding

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EDITION PUBLISHEDSeptember 2017

Genres

Fiction Classics Romance

Themes

Restraint versus emotional excessFinancial precarity and women's dependence on marriageSisterhood and quiet self-sacrificeSocial politeness as a vehicle for cruelty

Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition)

Name: Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition)
Price: 2.99 USD
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Author: Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility follows sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood through financial ruin and romantic disappointment, weighing a life of careful restraint against one lived entirely out loud.

The Review

Our take

Elinor is the harder sister to love on a first read, and that's the whole engine of the book. Marianne weeps operatically, plays the piano until the room aches, and falls for a man in a single afternoon the way other people fall down stairs, and it is Elinor, quietly managing everyone's disappointment while nursing her own, who Austen asks us to sit with instead. That's a demanding choice for a novel to make, and a rewarding one: by the time you understand why Elinor holds herself together in a room full of people who don't deserve the effort, you've stopped mistaking her calm for a lack of feeling.

Austen builds the whole book out of rooms and the small cruelties performed politely inside them. A visit from a sister-in-law becomes a slow accounting of exactly how little the Dashwood women are worth to the people who inherited their house. A letter that never arrives says more than the ones that do. Austen doesn't need a ballroom scene to draw blood; she needs two women sitting across from each other at tea, one of them lying by omission, and the reader watching Elinor absorb it without a single visible flinch.

What surprised me most, coming back to this after the more famous Austen novels, is how genuinely funny it is in the margins. The Dashwoods' half brother and his wife are drawn with a precision that borders on cruelty, their selfishness dressed up in the language of prudence and family duty, and Austen lets them talk themselves into smaller and smaller acts of stinginess with total sincerity. You laugh, and then you notice the laugh has an edge, because the money they're rationalizing away from a grieving family is real money that this family actually needs.

The marriage plot resolves the way Austen's plots tend to resolve, and readers coming in expecting the wit and momentum of her later work should know this one moves slower and sits longer in Marianne's heartbreak before it lets anyone off the hook. That patience is deliberate. Austen isn't rushing to the wedding; she's building the case, methodically, for why a life bent entirely toward feeling and a life bent entirely toward restraint are both, on their own, incomplete.

Why you should read

Great if you like slow-burn romance grounded in family pressure
Readers who want sharp social satire alongside heartbreak
Fans of character studies about restraint versus impulsiveness
Good for readers new to Austen looking for an entry point

What to expect

Slower pacing than Austen's later, wittier novels
Domestic scenes carrying real emotional weight
Sharp comic timing around selfish minor characters
A patient build toward its romantic resolution

By the end, the book has made its argument without ever raising its voice: that sense without feeling curdles into martyrdom, and feeling without sense burns through everyone standing near it. Elinor doesn't get to be right in some triumphant way. She just gets to be steady long enough that the people around her finally notice what steadiness cost her.

Reviewed by Avery · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.5/ 5

Outstanding

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Is there an audiobook of Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition)?: Yes. Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Wendy Ellison Mullen.
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How long is the Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) audiobook?: The Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) audiobook runs 12 hr 35 min.
Is Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) on Kindle Unlimited?: No. Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 17, 2026.
How much does Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $2.99, Paperback $4.99, Hardcover $14.33. Prices as of August 21, 2026 at 3:47 AM EDT and may change.

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Common questions

What is Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) about?: Elinor is the harder sister to love on a first read, and that's the whole engine of the book. Marianne weeps operatically, plays the piano until the room aches, and falls for a man in a single afternoon the way other people fall down stairs, and it is Elinor, quietly managing everyone's…
Is Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) worth reading?: We scored Sense and Sensibility (AmazonClassics Edition) 4.5 out of 5. Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility follows sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood through financial ruin and romantic disappointment, weighing a life of careful restraint against one lived entirely out loud.