Pride and Prejudice - Introduction Alexander Mccall Smith

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER McCALL SMITHThe Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion.'The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' IndependentElizabeth Bennet is young, clever and attractive, but her mother is a nightmare and she and her four sisters are in dire need of financial security and escape in the shape of husbands. The arrival of the affable Mr Bingley and arrogant Mr Darcy in the neighbourhoos, both single and in possession of large fortunes, turns all their lives upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry, enmity and love.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Austen
• Assisted by: Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction), McCall Smith Alexander (Introduction), Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.06.2014
• EAN: 9780099589334
• ISBN: 978-0-09-958933-4
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 178 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics Austen Series; Vintage Classics Austen Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary