Pride and Prejudice
Edition: First Enriched Classics printing, July 1978 (4)
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 1978-07
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780671416782
Copyright date: 1963
Subjects: Non-Classifiable; Nonfiction - General
Description: A clergyman's daughter living in the narrow world of a country parish, Jane Austen Nrote about the people she knew —prosperous country families, pompous preachers, dashing naval officers (her brothers were in the navy), giddy girls, and scheming women whose sole purpose in life was to reel in the social whirl until matrimony beckoned them to secure domesticity Pride and Prejudice is a perfect example of Miss Austen's ability to construct a novel that is a model of exactness of structure and symmetry of form. And within the limitations of her provincial world she managed to illuminate basic human characteristics —cynicism, péttiness, jealousy, and genuine passion.