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An edition of Pride and Prejudice
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Pride and Prejudice
Oxford World's Classics hardback (1)
by Jane Austen
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS celebrates the World's Classics series by reissuing some of the best loved novels in their original hardback format, with special introductions by today's most distinguished writers.
Pride and Prejudice (1813) is Jane Austen's best known novel in which the story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is played out among a scintillating cast of charac- ters, including the fatuous Mr Collins and his patroness Lady Catherine de Bourgh, the ill-matched Mr and Mrs Bennet, and the unscrupulous George Wickham.
William Trevor, novelist and short-story writer, is the author of numerous books including the prize-winning Felicia 's Jour- ney (1994) and Tlie Oxford Book gf Irish Short Stories (1989).
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2018, Macmillan Popular Classics
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1999, Oxford University Press
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Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
Mr. Bennet, owner of the Longbourn estate in Hertfordshire, has five daughters, but his property is entailed and can only be passed to a male heir. His wife also lacks an inheritance, so his family faces becoming very poor upon his death. Thus, it is imperative that at least one of the girls marry well to support the others, which is a motivation that drives the plot.
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