Pride and Prejudice (New Longman Literature 14-18)

by Jane Austen (Author), Jane Austen (Author), Siobhan Lancaster (Author), Roy Blatchford (Author)

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  1991

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  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. To the delight of Mrs Bennet, a wealthy young bachelor arrives in the neighbourhood, presenting her with the perfect opportunity to marry off the eldest of her five daughters...But what of Elizabeth, her second daughter -and the haughty Mr Darcy?

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  2000

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  1992

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  Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.

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  1991

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  Probably the popular favourite among Jane Austen's novels, Pride and Prejudice was the first to be written (1796-7), when the author was just twenty-one. Revised for publication thirteen years later, it combines the freshness of youth with the skill of maturity, not least in the brilliance of the characterization and the attractiveness of the heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.