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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

ISBN13: 9780451525888
ISBN10: 0451525884
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Few readers have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr Darcy — who is quite the most handsome and eligible bachelor in the whole of English literature — is a misjudgement only matched in folly by Darcy's arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to truer feelings in a comedy profoundly concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved.

Vivien Jones, in her new introduction to this Penguin Classics edition, shows how their romance is inseparable from the important social and political debates of Austen's time, and describes Pride and Prejudice as "One of the most perfect, most pleasurable and most subtle — and therefore, perhaps, most dangerously persuasive — of romantic love stories."

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The romantic clash of two opinionated young people provides the sustaining theme of Austen's 1813 masterwork. Spirited Elizabeth Bennet is one of a family of five daughters. With no male heir, the Bennet estate must someday pass to their priggish cousin Collins. Therefore, the girls must marry well--and the arrogant bachelor Mr. Darcy is Elizabeth's elusive match. Reprint.

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: jairene, December 8, 2008 (view all comments by jairene)
pride and prejudice is a must read book. every person in the world can easily relate to at least one of the characters. this book makes you think, "if i were in his position, would i be the same?". a great read!
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ISBN:: 9780451525888
Author:: Austen, Jane
Publisher:: Libri
Introduction:: Drabble, Margaret
Author:: Morse, Joann
Author:: Drabble, Margaret
Author:: James, Eloisa
Adapted:: Drabble, Margaret
Location:: New York :
Subject:: Fiction
Subject:: Classics
Subject:: Novels and novellas
Subject:: England
Subject:: British and irish
Subject:: Young women
Subject:: Sisters
Subject:: Love stories
Subject:: Courtship
Subject:: Domestic fiction
Subject:: Sisters -- England -- Fiction.
Subject:: General Fiction
Publication Date:: 20080102
Binding:: Paperback
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Y
Pages:: 400
Dimensions:: 6.96x4.34x.56 in. .36 lbs.

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