Pride and Prejudice

Informationen zum Autor Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan . Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility , which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park and Emma . Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818. Klappentext Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics! designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy! she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane! she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows! Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships! gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life. Zusammenfassung When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Austen
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2012
• EAN: 9780141199078
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119907-8
• No. of pages: 395
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; The Penguin English Library; Penguin Classics; The Penguin English Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / General, Hertfordshire, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Classics, Derbyshire, Family life fiction, c 1811 to c 1820 (Regency period), Classic fiction: general and literary, Satirical style / satire, Relating to higher socioeconomic groups / status