Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen.
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TextPublication details: New York : Bantam, 2003.Edition: Bantam classic reissue [ed]Description: 344 p. ; 18 cmISBN: - 0553213105 (pbk.)
- 0881031216 (bound)
- 9780553213102 (pbk.)
- 9780881031218 (bound)
- Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Courtship -- England -- Fiction
- Darcy, Fitzwilliam (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Marriage -- England -- Fiction
- Sisters -- England -- Fiction
- Upper class -- England -- Fiction
- Young women -- England -- Fiction
- England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners-one of the most popular novels of all time-that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the "most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author's works," and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as "irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-337).
In early nineteenth-century England, Elizabeth Bennett, a spirited young woman copes with the romantic entanglements of her four sisters, and her feelings for Fitzwilliam Darcy, a brooding gentleman.