Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen (author), Vivien Jones (editor)

With its 'light and bright and sparkling' dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most perennially popular novel. The love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, who misjudge, then challenge and change each other, is also a novel about the search for happiness and self- knowledge in a world of strict social rules, where a woman must marry well to survive.

Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; Revised ed. edition (30 Jan. 2003)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780141439518
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.52 cm