” Really, Mr. Collins, ” cried Elizabeth with some warmth, ”you puzzle me exceedingly...”- Pride & Prejudice Enter the world of Pride & Prejudice & Puzzles, a beautifully realized puzzle collection that transports you to Jane Austen`s England
- a land of polite intrigue & conjugal contrivance. Permit yourself the indulgence of an interval of recreation & amusement to make your acquaintance with the riddles & conundrums contained within; for you are sure to receive no inconsiderable pleasure from the puzzling over & resolving of them. Your quest for an amiable distraction will be over, leaving your curiosity entirely satisfied. Puzzles there are plenty, clues there are many, & the pages are handsomely decorated with fine engravings entirely suited to the subject matter.
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JANUARY 2013: CELEBRATE THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF PRIDE & PREJUDICE. When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy she is repelled by his overbearing pride, & prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy`s friend, the affable Mr Bingley, forms an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry & love
- Jane Austen`s classic romance novel. * Voted the nation`s favourite book by the British public. * Now a major film starring Keira Knightly. * Adapted for TV in the well-loved 1995 BBC drama starring Colin Firth. * If you like this you might like: Sense & Sensibility.
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The Penguin Classics edition of Pride & Prejudice is the definitive version of Jane Austen`s timeless novel of love`s triumph over adversity, celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2013. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant & conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks & lively mind. When she later discovers that Mr Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Mr Bingley & her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. Jane Austen`s Pride & Prejudice is a sparkling comedy of manners which explores the folly of judging by first impressions, & superbly evokes the friendships, gossip & snobberies of provincial middle-class life in early nineteenth-century Engl&. Edited with notes & an introduction by Vivien Jones, this edition also

Includes:: a new chronology, additional suggestions for further reading, & the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature`s most famous women writers. Austen began writing at a young age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work, Pride & Prejudice, at the age of 22. She was the author of Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park & Northanger Abbey. If you liked Pride & Prejudice, you may enjoy Charlotte Bronte`s Jane Eyre, also available in Penguin Classics. ” The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal”. (Virginia Woolf). ” As nearly flawless as any fiction could be”. (Eudora Welty). ” Pride & Prejudice has always been the most popular of Jane Austen`s books.. .with its good humoured comedy, its sunny heroine, its dream denouement”. (Claire Tomalin).

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Oneworld Classics will include the greatest masterpieces of all time, from every literature & genre & will also redefine & enrich the classics canon by promoting unjustly neglected works of enduring significance. Pride & Prejudice ranks as one of the most cherished love stories in English literature, delighting generations of readers with its high comedy, social observation & compelling romance, & spawning an entire industry of spin-off books, film adaptations & works of literary criticism. The pride of aristocratic Mr Darcy, & the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet, conduct a compelling dance through the rigid society of early 19th century Engl&, with the passion of the two unlikely lovers growing as their union seems ever more improbable. With a host of Bennet sisters playing out their own triumphs & disasters, & the unforgettable tragicomedy of their parents' marriage demonstrating just how high the stakes can be, Jane Austen's second novel leaves a lasting legacy in the mind of everyone who reads it. ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ` It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.` Austen`s best-loved tale of love, marriage & society in class-conscious Georgian England still delights modern readers today with its comedy & characters. It follows the feisty, quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet as her parents seek to ensure good marriages for her & her sisters in order to secure their future. The protagonists Darcy & Elizabeth learn much about themselves & those around them & Austen`s expertly crafted comedy characters of Mrs Bennet & Mr Collins demonstrate her great artistry as a writer. ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen` No sooner had he made it clear to himself & his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes.. .` When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant & conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks & lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley & her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions & superbly evokes the friendships, gossip & snobberies of provincial middle-class life. The Penguin English Library
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Part of Penguin`s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant & conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks & lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley & her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions & superbly evokes the friendships, gossip & snobberies of provincial middle-class life. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:25, 000 published by the Centro Nacional de Información Geograficá, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic maps at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.PLEASE NOTE: our grid for the whole of Spain is in preparation
- in the meantime, for areas other than those shown on the attached grid please use CNIG’s topographic survey at 1:50, 000 by searching for ‘SI00000832’. Each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 50K map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter & IV = SE quarter. CNIG maps in the Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 survey & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K or 25K title in more detail. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series grid
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Map No. 2922, Prieska, in South Africa’s official topographic survey at 1:250, 000 from the country’s national survey organization, the Chief Directorate of Surveys & Mapping. The maps have altitude colouring & contours at 50m or 100m intervals, depending on the map edition, plus spot heights. Deserts, marshes, dry pans, perennial & seasonal water features, etc, as well as protected areas are shown. The maps present the country’s road & rail networks & include the usual information expected on topographic mapping at this scale, although in more rapidly developing areas road information may not necessarily be up to date. Also indicated are magisterial district & provincial boundaries. Latitude & longitude values are shown in the margins at 5` intervals together with South African grid co-ordinates. Typically, each sheet covers an area of one degree of latitude & two degrees of longitude. The projection used is Gauss Conformal. The legend is in English & Afrikaans. ...