Pride & Prejudice
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: UBS Publishers Distributors
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Delhi, India
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9788185944838
Subjects: 19th century fiction
Description: Jane Austen had said of Pride and Prejudice that "it is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it was shad", and this is perhaps the reason of its immense popularity. The precision and vivacity of her style carries the reader through the novel with ease and there is a sparkling life about the characters and freshness about the scenery that makes it the gayest of her novels.

It has been said about Jane Austen's novels that they dealt with the subject of young ladies finding husbands but which had deeper overtones about the class character of early Victorian England, its hypocrisy and sham and the essentially male-dominated nature of its society. In Pride and Prejudice the precariousness of this world emerges when Charlotte Lucas agrees to marry the egregious Mr Collins or when no prospect of marriage. What Jane Austen tells us is that genteel and moneyless young ladies who depended on their good looks to secure themselves a congenial marriage, which alone guaranteed economic and social security, must always beware male gallants who had nothing to offer but their gallantry. --back cover
Notes: UBSPD's World Classics