Pride And Prejudice (English Library) - Softcover

Austen, Jane; Tanner, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140430725 ISBN 13: 9780140430721

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1973

Synopsis

Austen's comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--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 18-century drawing-room intrigues. Reissue.

About this title

Review:

Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character who ,if provoked, is not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp, yet always polite, 18th-century wit. The real point of the book though, the critical question which will keep you fixated throughout, is: will Elizabeth and Mr Darcy hook up? Read this genuine all-time classic and discover the answer while enjoying a story that has charmed generation after generation.

Review:

"The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste."
--Virginia Woolf

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140430725
• ISBN 13: 9780140430721
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 400