Pride and Prejudice - BookWyrm for Social Yetis

Paperback, 368 pages

English language

Published Sept. 18, 2007 by Vintage Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-307-38686-1
OCLC Number:: 168390601

No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it -- and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.

We are captivated not only by the novel's romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit in its pages. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by Jane Austen's wit and feeling but by her subtle observations of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to one another and ourselves.

JANE AUSTEN (1773-1817) was born in Hampshire, England, where she spent most of her life. Though she …

No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it -- and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.

We are captivated not only by the novel's romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit in its pages. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by Jane Austen's wit and feeling but by her subtle observations of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to one another and ourselves.

JANE AUSTEN (1773-1817) was born in Hampshire, England, where she spent most of her life. Though she received little recognition in her lifetime, she came to be regarded as one of the great masters of the English novel. --back cover

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Kolinzkay reviewed Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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Jane Austen sneakily exposes the appalling treatment of women in this cutting and often hilarious satirical examination of the English Patriarchy during the Classic Regency period. One can't help wondering what further mischief, Elizabeth if furnished with extensive wealth and position, would get up to in the future.

Kolinzkay reviewed Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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5 stars

A delightful period Novel of immense and understated importance that denounces misogyny through the artifice of satirical romcom.

Subjects

Sisters -- England -- Fiction
Young women -- England -- Fiction
Courtship -- Fiction
Social classes -- Fiction
England -- Fiction