Pride and Prejudice

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Penguin Adult, Apr 6, 2006 - Fiction - 432 pages
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.

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About the author (2006)

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudicewhen she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressionsand was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility(1811), Pride and Prejudice(1813), Mansfield Park(1814) and Emma(1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbeyand Persuasionwere both published posthumously in 1818

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