Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen's classic novel about the Bennett sisters and their efforts to garner economic security, for which each must procure a suitable husband. The title refers to the spirited and volatile eldest sister, Elizabeth, who rejects an offer of marriage from heir Fitzwilliam Darcy, whose seeming arrogance and pride blind her to his noble qualities. Parallel plots involve quiet sister Jane's love for stolid Charles Bingley, and the youngest, frivolous sister Lydia's elopement with one of Elizabeth's erstwhile suitors.

Editions of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

	ISBN 9780321105073	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Longman Pub Group	Date 2002	Price $3.49	very good
	ISBN 9780671006013	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Monarch Notes	Date 1985	Price $4.00	Good+

Media Reviews

"Arrange the great English novelists as one will, it does not seem possible to bring them out in any order where she is not the first, or second or third, whoever her companions may be....A little aloof, a little inscrutable and mysterious, she will always remain, but serene and beautiful also because of her greatness as an artist."

Synopses

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. Includes explanatory notes throughout the text, an introduction discussing the author and the background of the story, and a study guide.