Pride and Prejudice Paperback - 2000
by Jane Austen; Introduction by Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen writes the Introduction for this edition of the classic comedy of manners between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet.
About this book
A novel of manners, set in the early 19th century, the story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, the second of five daughters of a country gentleman. The five unmarried sisters are pressed to find a good wealthy match, and the very opinionated Elizabeth comes to odds with her proud beau Mr. Darcy.
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
So begins "Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that 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 eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the "most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author's works," and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as "irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be."
First Edition Identification
The first edition of Pride and Prejudice was published on the 28th of January, 1813 by Thomas Egerton in Whitehall England in three volumes. When the first edition sold out, the second printing was released in October of that year. The third edition was published in 1817.
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- Title Pride and Prejudice
- Author Jane Austen; Introduction by Anna Quindlen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Modern Library
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-10-10
- ISBN 9780679783268 / 0679783261
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.26 x 0.69 in (21.34 x 13.36 x 1.75 cm)
- Ages 08 to UP years
- Grade levels 3 - UP
- Reading level 700
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Sisters
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95006310
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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