Pride and Prejudice
Contributors: James Kinsley (Editor); Isobel Armstrong (Introduction)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780192833556
Copyright date: 1990
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.'**

Of all Jane Austen's books, *Pride and Prejudice* has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of the Bennet family and of the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove 'rather too light and bright, and sparkling', delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who encounter it for the first time. Jane Austen's artistry is apparent, too, in the delineation of the minor characters: the ill-matched Mr and Mrs Bennet, Charles Bingley and his sisters, and above all the fatuous Mr Collins, whose proposal to Elizabeth Bennet is one of the finest comic passages in English literature. And while she entertains us, Jane Austen teaches us the wisdom of balance, the folly of 'pride' and 'prejudice'.
Notes: Oxford World's Classics paperback reissue (2)
UK / US Edition
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Note on the Text; title: Select Bibliography; title: A Chronology of Jane Austen; title: Pride and Prejudice; title: Volume I; title: Volume II; title: Volume III; title: Explanatory Notes