Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen (Penguin Classics)

Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen (Penguin Classics)

by Jane Austen (Author), Jane Austen (Author), Tony Tanner (Introduction), Vivien Jones (Editor)

Synopsis

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 30 Jan 2003

ISBN 10: 0141439513
ISBN 13: 9780141439518
Prizes: Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 and The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.

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The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste.
--Virginia Woolf
Author Bio
Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.