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The nation's favourite Jane Austen novel - her enduring story of pride and prejudiceDiscover 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.**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

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'The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' Independent

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'The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' Independent Elizabeth Bennett is young, clever and attractive, but her mother is a nightmare and she and her four sisters are in dire need of financial security and escape in the shape of husbands. The arrival of nice Mr Bingley and arrogant Mr Darcy in the neighbourhood turns all their lives upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry, enmity and love. 'The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste' Virginia Woolf See also: Emma

Author Biography

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.

Review

Packed with wit. -- Helen Dunmore * Daily Express *
The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist * Independent *
The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste * Virginia Woolf *
Like Irvine Welsh, I am a great admirer of Jane Austen -- Alexander McCall Smith
Another question I've been regularly asked over the past year is what models I had in mind when writing Curious Incident. Was it To Kill a Mockingbird? Was it Catcher in the Rye? In fact, the book most often in my mind was Pride and Prejudice -- Mark Haddon

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I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry - Pride and Prejudice

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Elizabeth Bennett is young, clever, and attractive, but she and her four sisters are in dire need of financial security in the shape of husbands. The arrival of the pleasant nice Mr. Bingley and the obscenely arrogant Mr. Darcy in the neighborhood turns all of their lives upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry, enmity, and love.

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Packed with wit.

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"The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste."

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The nation's favourite Jane Austen novel - her enduring story of pride and prejudice

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