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Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice( )
Author: Austen, Jane
Series title:Vintage Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-307-38686-1
Publication Date:Sep 2007
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Vintage
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $9.00
Book Description:

No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice--one of the great classics in literature. Critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it, but the rest of us simply fall in love with it--and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet. We are captivated not only by Pride and Prejudice's romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit in its pages. The life of the English...
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Book Details
Pages:384
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Family Life / Siblings
Fiction / Women
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.17 x 7.99 x 0.77 Inches
Book Weight:0.588 Pounds
Author Biography
Austen, Jane (Author)
Jane Austen's life is striking for the contrast between the great works she wrote in secret and the outward appearance of being quite dull and ordinary. Austen was born in the small English town of Steventon in Hampshire, and educated at home by her clergyman father. She was deeply devoted to her family. For a short time, the Austens lived in the resort city of Bath, but when her father died, they returned to Steventon, where Austen lived until her death at the age of 41.

Austen was drawn to literature early, she began writing novels that satirized both the writers and the manners of the 1790's. Her sharp sense of humor and keen eye for the ridiculous in human behavior gave her works lasting appeal. She is at her best in such books as Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), in which she examines and often ridicules the behavior of small groups of middle-class characters. Austen relies heavily on conversations among her characters to reveal their personalities, and at times her novels read almost like plays. Several of them have, in fact, been made into films. She is considered to be one of the most beloved British authors.

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