Pride and Prejudice : The Collector's Edition

Name: Pride and Prejudice : The Collector's Edition
Brand: Jane Austen
SKU: 9781009432580
Price: 15.67 GBP
Availability: InStock

by Jane Austen

Title:

Author:

Jane Austen

Series (if any):

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Format:

Hardback

Number of pages:

400 pages, Worked examples or Exercises

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

ISBN-13:

9781009432580

EAN:

9781009432580

Classifications:

Literature: history and criticism

Weight (g):

668

Dimensions (mm):

134 x 210 x 23

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£15.67

1 copies in stock

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Description

Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Austen's six remarkable novels. Full of crackling dialogue, it achieves the finest balance of comedy and reflection, liveliness and solemnity. While revealing the restrictive life of genteel women at the turn of the nineteenth century, it provides as the central consciousness the clever, witty, and flirtatious Elizabeth Bennet, arguably Austen's most alluring heroine. One of the great love stories of English literature, the novel has spawned countless films and fantasies. In its brilliant balance of psychological observation and social comedy, the original effortlessly survives its global exploitation. The novels Austen wrote later in life were more complex but, drafted when the author was close to her heroine's age of twenty, Pride and Prejudice remains her most vivacious and sparkling work. Prefaces and explanatory endnotes supplied by Janet Todd illuminate the cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.