Pride and Prejudice
By: Jane Austen ; edited wih an introduction and notes by Vivien Jones.
Contributors: Jones, Vivien, 1952-
Edition: Penguin Classics (9)
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780140434262
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Social classes -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; Courtship -- Fiction; Sisters -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Few readers have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr Darcy - who is quite the most handsome and eligible bachelor in the whole of English literature - is a misjudgement only matched by Darcy's arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to truer feelings in a comedy profoundly concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved. 

Vivien Jones, in her new introduction to this Penguin Classics edition, shows how their romance is inseparable from the important and social political debates of Austen's time, and describes Pride and Prejudice as 'One of the most perfect, most pleasurable and most subtle - and therefore, perhaps, most dangerously persuasive - of romantic love stories.'
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Acknowledgements; title: The Penguin Edition of the Novels of Jane Austen; title: Note on the Text; title: Further Reading; title: Pride and Prejudice; title: List of Emendations; title: Notes