This Audio Book is a live performance by Nita Moyer and is provided on a single Compact Disk in "MP3" format. It contains more than 12 hours 38 minutes of unabridged audio of the original text. The book can be played on all MP3 players, Most newer CD/DVD players, Mobile audio devices, PDAs, Pocket PCs and PC CD/DVD-ROMs. <br/><br/>Sense and Sensibility is set in Sussex, Devonshire and London, England in the early 19th century. Jane Austen crafts a romance story of two middleclass daughters seeking marriage and happiness. They have a disadvantage in that they have no wealth of their own to attract a husband. The sensitive characters are painted as being amiable, generous and near sighted; the practical characters are drawn to show no presumption of future happiness; and the caring characters are presented as generous and well meaning with altruistic motives. The insensitive characters are inserted in a way that inflicts a maximum of injury to those who can least defend themselves; in the end the mean and insensitive get their just deserts. Austen weaves the plot with these personae to create a charming picture of 19th century England.