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| Pride and Prejudice
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's perfect comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendi...
More >"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's perfect comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. "Pride and Prejudice seems as vital today as ever," writes Anna Quindlen in her introduction to this Modern Library edition. "It is a pure joy to read." Eudora Welty agrees: "The gaiety is unextinguished, the irony has kept its bite, the reasoning is still sweet, the sparkle undiminished. [It is] irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.
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| File Size | 1.57 MB |
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| Publisher | Modern Library
Random House |
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| Publish Date | 12/31/1994 |
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| Print Pages | 304 |
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| Print ISBN | 0679601686 |
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| eBook ISBN | 0679641122 |
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| Print List Price | $ 14.95 |
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| eBook List Price | $ 4.95 |
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Austen is the hot property of the entertainment world with new feature film versions of Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility on the silver screen and Pride
and Prejudice hitting the TV airwaves on PBS. Such high visibility will inevitably draw renewed interest in the original source materials. These new Modern Library editions offer quality hardcovers at affordable prices. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen's life is striking for the contrast between the great works she wrote in secret and the outward appearance of being quite dull and ordinary. Austen was born in the small English town of Steventon in Hampshire, and educated at home by her clergyman father. She was d...
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Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen joined The New York Times in 1977, and has been a general assignment reporter, City Hall reporter, and the paper's deputy metropolitan editor. A 1974 graduate of Barnard College and a member of the college's Board of Trustees, she has been awarded Columbia Universi...
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