Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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Editor/introduction - Vivien Jones

Introduction by - Tony Tanner

Notes by - Vivien Jones

Penguin Classics
Paperback : 30 Jan 2003

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'Vanity, not love, has been my folly’

In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, 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 us in Pride and Prejudice the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.

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Customer Review: 13 February 2011

Reviewer: Sophie

'..a marvelous novel..'

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Critic Review:

‘Pride and Prejudice has always been the most popular of Jane Austen’s books … with its good humoured comedy, its sunny heroine, its dream denouement’
Claire Tomalin

‘These modern editions are to be strongly recommended for their scrupulous texts, informative notes and helpful introductions’
Brian Southam, the Jane Austen Society