Pride and Prejudice
By: Jane Austen.
Publisher: Minster Classics
Published: 1968
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 510
Copyright date: 1968
Description: When Mr. Bennet spoke that line, he was talk- ing about his own daughters—but with loving warmth as well as ironic observation.

Amusingly wicked comments like this, always keen-sighted and made with affection rather than bitterness, are the keynote of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. It was written by Jane Austen when she was only twenty years old. In addition to being so young for a novelist, she lived in a little country town in England and never saw a great deal of the world. But what she knew she knew well indeed, and this was the manners and motives for her own kind of people. The simple story of an English family with five daughters to marry off, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE never strays very far from its country-house scene and presents no epic adventures, but it häs a definite story to tell about people and tells it in such a lively, humorous way that it remains as fresh and appealing today as when it was first written.

Jane Austen, daughter of a clergyman, was born in Steventon, England, in 1775. She died in 1817.