Pride and Prejudice - Second Edition

Name: Pride and Prejudice - Second Edition
Brand: Jane Austen
SKU: 9781554814893
Price: 17.06 GBP
Availability: InStock

by Jane Austen

Title:

Author:

Jane Austen

Edited by:

Irvine, Robert P.

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

448 pages, 2 Illustrations, black and white

Publisher:

Broadview Press Ltd

ISBN-13:

9781554814893

EAN:

9781554814893

Publication Date:

06/07/2020

Classifications:

Literature: history and criticism

Weight (g):

618

Dimensions (mm):

140 x 215 x 25

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£17.06

3 copies in stock

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Description

Elizabeth Bennet is Austen’s most liberated and appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen’s most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, and especially on Elizabeth’s prejudice against the proud and distant Fitzwilliam Darcy. Pride and Prejudice is a romantic comedy that has been read as conservative and feminist, reactionary and revolutionary, rooted in the time of its composition and deliberately timeless. Robert Irvine’s introduction sets the novel in the context of the literary and intellectual history of the period, dealing with such crucial background issues as class relations in Britain, female exclusion from property and power, and the impact of the French Revolution. The introduction and annotations have been expanded and updated for the new edition, and a new appendix of Austen’s juvenilia has been added.