Bibliograph

Pride and prejudice, Jane Austen ; edited with an introduction by Vivien Jones ; with the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner

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Pride and prejudice, Jane Austen ; edited with an introduction by Vivien Jones ; with the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Pride and prejudice

Oclc number

502355342

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Jane Austen ; edited with an introduction by Vivien Jones ; with the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner

Series statement

Penguin classics

Summary

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." With this famous declaration, Jane Austen launches into the story of the five Bennet sisters, a story that on first reading is full of suspense, surprise and, ultimately, satisfaction, and which on re-reading commands a deeper admiration for the author's remarkable skill in managing a deceptively complex plot to its triumphant conclusion. First published in 1813, and Austen's most popular novel in her own lifetime, Pride and Prejudice has since been widely recognised as one of the finest novels in the English languageIn early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, and the romantic entanglements of her four sisters

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