Paperback, 368 pages
English language
Published Sept. 18, 2007 by Vintage Books.
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (Paperback, 2007, Vintage Books)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-307-38686-1
- OCLC Number:
- 168390601
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No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it -- and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.
We are captivated not only by the novel's romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit in its pages. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by Jane Austen's wit and feeling but by her subtle observations of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to one another and ourselves.
JANE AUSTEN (1773-1817) was born in Hampshire, England, where she spent most of her life. Though she received little …
No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it -- and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.
We are captivated not only by the novel's romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit in its pages. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by Jane Austen's wit and feeling but by her subtle observations of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to one another and ourselves.
JANE AUSTEN (1773-1817) was born in Hampshire, England, where she spent most of her life. Though she received little recognition in her lifetime, she came to be regarded as one of the great masters of the English novel. --back cover
Subjects
- Sisters -- England -- Fiction
- Young women -- England -- Fiction
- Courtship -- Fiction
- Social classes -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction