Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics Austen Series)

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Random House, Jul 3, 2014 - Fiction - 464 pages

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic.

When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy's friend, the affable Mr Bingley, forms an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry and love - Jane Austen's classic romance novel.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

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About the author (2014)

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 Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions and 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 Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie Series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, and the 44 Scotland Street series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has served on many national and international bodies concerned with bioethics. www.alexandermccallsmith.com

Leanne Shapton is an illustrator, author and publisher based in New York City. http://leanneshapton.com/

Bibliographic information

TitlePride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics Austen Series)
Vintage Classics Austen Series
AuthorJane Austen
ContributorAlexander McCall Smith
PublisherRandom House, 2014
ISBN1473513685, 9781473513686
Length464 pages
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