Pride And Prejudice (Vintage Classics)

Author: Jane Austen

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  • : $14.99 AUD
  • : 9780099511151
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
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  • : September 2007
  • : 197mm X 133mm
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  • : August 2007
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  • : Jane Austen
  • : Vintage Classics Ser.
  • : Paperback
  • : 710
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  • : English
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Description

I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry - Pride and Prejudice When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy she is repelled by his overbearing pride, and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy's friend, the affable Mr Bingley, forms an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry and love - Jane Austen's classic romance novel. Voted the nation's favourite book by the British public. Now a major film starring Keira Knightly. Adapted for TV in the well-loved 1995 BBC drama starring Colin Firth.

Reviews

"The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist" --Independent "The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste" --Virginia Woolf "Like Irvine Welsh, I am a great admirer of Jane Austen" -- Alexander McCall Smith "Another question I've been regularly asked over the past year is what models I had in mind when writing Curious Incident. Was it To Kill a Mockingbird? Was it Catcher in the Rye? In fact, the book most often in my mind was Pride and Prejudice" -- Mark Haddon "An incredibly funny, very upmarket love story with an enchanting heroine and the perfect romantic hero: a tartar with a heart of gold" -- Jilly Cooper

Author description

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath and then to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions. It was initially rejected by publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. All four of her novels published in her lifetime were published anonymously. Jane Austen died on 18 July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously.