Pride and Prejudice
Contributors: Anna Quindlen (Introduction)
Edition: Modern Library paperback edition
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780679783268
Copyright date: 1995, 1996
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Literary; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Classics; Fiction / General; Reading Group Guide
First sentence: IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Description: “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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Notes: USA / CAN