The Penguin Classics edition of Pride and Prejudice
is the definitive version of Jane Austen's timeless
novel of love's triumph over adversity, celebrating its
200th anniversary in 2013. 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 Mr Darcy has involved himself in the troubled
relationship between his friend Mr Bingley and her
beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him
more than ever. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a
sparkling comedy of manners which explores the folly of
judging by first impressions, and superbly evokes the
friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial
middle-class life in early nineteenth-century England.
Edited with notes and an introduction by Vivien Jones,
this edition also includes a new chronology, additional
suggestions for further reading, and the original
Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner. Jane
Austen (1[zasłonięte]775-18) was extremely modest about her own
genius but has become one of English literature's most
famous women writers.Austen began writing at a young
age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work,
Pride and Prejudice, at the age of 22. She was the
author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice,
Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey.
If you liked Pride and Prejudice, you may enjoy
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, also available in Penguin
Classics. ''The most perfect artist among women, the
writer whose books are immortal''. (Virginia Woolf).
''As nearly flawless as any fiction could be''. (Eudora
Welty). ''Pride and Prejudice has always been the most
popular of Jane Austen's books ...with its good humoured
comedy, its sunny heroine, its dream denouement''.
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