PRIDE AND PREJUDICE [Cambridge Literature Series] by Jane [edited by Richard Bain] Austen - Paperback - First Thus - 1996 - from A Scholar's Tale Booksellers and Biblio.com

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It's hard to believe that Jane Austen wrote the sophisticated and acerbic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE when she was only 21 years old, in 1797. Originally entitled FIRST IMPRESSIONS, the novel was rejected, revised, retitled, and finally published--anonymously--in 1813, only four years before Austen's untimely death. In PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Austen calls on her sharp observations of vanity, venality, pomposity, and downright nuttiness in a story about a respectable but far from wealthy family full of daughters--girls who desperately need to find husbands if they are to have any kind of economic security. The eldest of the Bennett family, Elizabeth, is a bright, opinionated, and complacent young woman whose reaction to an offer of marriage from her wealthy but impossibly arrogant suitor, Fitzwilliam Darcy, is revulsion. But in the course of the story both Elizabeth and Darcy learn important lessons about their own folly and blindness, and about the dangers of superficial judgements. As the two perform their elaborate courtship dance, Austen surrounds them with some of her most uproariously clueless characters--from the wacky Mrs. Bennett to the wonderfully unctuous Mr. Collins, another of Elizabeth's admirers. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is, of course, a highly satisfying and offbeat love story, but it is also an unparalleled examination of human nature at both its best and its hilarious worst.

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"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."

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE [Cambridge Literature Series]

by Austen, Jane [edited by Richard Bain]

First Thus

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Book description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996 382 pp. Very light overall shelving wear, else like new.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 20 x 13 cm.

Bookseller: A Scholar's Tale Booksellers (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 003594
Format/binding: Paperback
Book condition: Very Good
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0521576547
ISBN 13: 9780521576543
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Place: Cambridge
Date published: 1996
Pages: 382
Size: 5.25 x 7.75 x 0.75 inches
LCCN: PR4034.P7 1996b
Dewey: 823/.7
Weight: 1.05 pounds
Keywords: pride and prejudice jane austen english literature classics
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General;

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