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)."