《理智与情感》是简·奥斯丁富于幽默情趣的处女作。埃丽诺和玛丽安两姐妹生在一个英国乡坤家庭，姐姐善于用理智来控制情感，妹妹的情感却毫无节制，因此面对爱情时，她们作出了不同的反映......小说以这两位女主角曲折复杂的婚事风波为主线，通过"理智与情感"的幽默对比，提出了道德与行为的规范问题。本书和作者的《傲慢与偏见》堪称姐妹篇，同样以细腻的笔触和生动的对白叙述没有富裕嫁妆的少女恋爱结婚的故事。Sense and Sensibility is the first novel of Jane Austen, which is full of humor. The two sisters Elinor and Marianne lived in a middle-class rural family. The elder sister was proficient in controlling emotions with sensibility while the younger one has no control of her sense. As a result, they made different reactions when love arrived. The novel uses the complex and zigzag marriage of the two heroines as the main clue. By making humorous contrast between sense and sensibility, the novel raises the issue about morals and behavior regulation. The novel is a sister book of Pride and Prejudice, another novel of the writer, which also uses the subtle description and vivid dialogue to tell the love and marriage story of a young girl without abundant dowry.