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Pride and Prejudice
Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author)

ISBN: 0553213105 ISBN-13: 9780553213102
Publisher: Bantam Classics

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Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 1983
Annotation: For over 150 years, "Pride And Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her "own darling child." "Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of these -- the haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy -- irks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. She annoys him. Which is how we know they must one day marry. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy is a splendid rendition of civilized sparring. As the characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, Jane Austen's radiantly caustic wit and keen observation sparkle.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Romance - Historical - Victorian

Dewey: FIC

Lexile Measure: 700(Not Available)

Physical Information: 0.8" H x 4.1" W x 6.8" L (0.38 lbs) 352 pages

Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1800-1850
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Topical - Home Schooling

Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Price on Product

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 714
Reading Level: 12.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 27.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the "most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author's works," and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as "irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be."

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