Pride and Prejudice (Enriched Classics) - Softcover

Austen, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743487591 ISBN 13: 9780743487597

Publisher: Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y., 2004

Synopsis

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

The first sentence of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is among the most quoted in literature, and sets up the humorous and ultimately timeless tale of proper English society, unspoken intentions, and true love acquired. Pride and Prejudice is a classic that adeptly traces the intricacies of social status, manners, and relationship rituals in nineteenth-century England, through which all the love between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy eventually blossoms.

Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research.

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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.

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The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste. (Virginia Woolf)

Jane Austen is such an excellent observer and recorder of life it is hardly possible not to enjoy her work (Online Reviewer)

About this edition

• Publisher: Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743487591
• ISBN 13: 9780743487597
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 458