num_pages: 493
description: Elizabeth Bennet is Austen’s most liberated and unambiguously 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: Elizabeth forms a prejudice against the proud and distant Mr. Darcy; Darcy’s charming friend Charles Bingley falls in love with her sister Jane; and the handsome officer George Wickham forms attachments successively to Elizabeth and to her sister Lydia.Irvine’s extensive introduction sets the novel in the context of the literary and intellectual history of the period, and deals with such crucial background issues as early-nineteenth century class relations in Britain, and female exclusion from property and power. The appendices present an unrivaled selection of background contextual documents.--back cover
language: English
title: Pride and Prejudice
titlecomplete: Pride and Prejudice
characters: George Wickham, Charles Bingley, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Jane Bennet, Mary Bennet, Kitty Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Caroline Bingley, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Georgiana Da, Charlotte Lucas, Caroline Bingley, Lydia Bennet, Kitty Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Jane Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Georgiana Darcy, Mrs. Gardiner, Mr. Bennet, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. William Collins, Mary Bennet, Mr. Gardiner, Elizabeth Bennet
genres: Classics, Historical, Adult, Historical Romance, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Audiobook, Fiction
ratings_count: 4066785
places: England, Derbyshire, England, Derbishire and Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Hertfordshire, England
publisher: Broadview Literary Texts