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Jan 02, 2008 | ISBN 9780451530783 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Jan 02, 2008 | ISBN 9781101099063 Buy
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Jan 02, 2008 | ISBN 9780451530783
Jan 02, 2008 | ISBN 9781101099063
Jane Austen’s witty comedy of manners is one of the most universally loved and admired English novels of all time.Spirited Elizabeth Bennet is one of a family of five daughters, and with no male heir, the Bennet estate must someday pass to their priggish cousin William Collins. Therefore, the girls must marry well—and thus is launched the story of Elizabeth and the arrogant bachelor Mr. Darcy, in a novel renowned as the epitome of romance and wit. Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s masterwork, an entertaining portrait of matrimonial rites and rivalries, timeless in its hilarity and its honesty.With an Introduction by Margaret Drabbleand an Afterword by Eloisa James
Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on… More about Jane Austen
“[Austen] had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is…the most wonderful I ever met.”—Sir Walter Scott
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