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Pride and prejudice

Author: Jane Austen; Vivien Jones
Publisher: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2003.
Series: Penguin classics
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Of all Jane Austen's books, Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of the Bennet family and of the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove 'rather too light and bright, and sparkling', delights its most familiar readers as  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction., Love stories.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jane Austen; Vivien Jones
ISBN: 0141439513 9780141439518 0141024038 9780141024035
OCLC Number: 51033055
Description: xlii, 435 p. ; 20 cm.
Series Title: Penguin classics
Responsibility: Jane Austen ; edited wih an introduction and notes by Vivien Jones ; with the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner.
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Of all Jane Austen's books, Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of the Bennet family and of the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove 'rather too light and bright, and sparkling', delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who encounter it for the first time. Jane Austen's artistry is apparent, too, in the delineation of the minor characters: the ill-matched Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Charles Bingley and his sisters, and above all the fatuous Mr. Collins, whose proposal to Elizabeth Bennet is one of the finest comic passages in English literature. And while she entertains us, Jane Austen teaches us the wisdom of balance, the folly of 'pride' and 'prejudice'.

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