Pride And Prejudice: Jane Austen (Vintage Classics Austen Series) - Softcover

Austen, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099589338 ISBN 13: 9780099589334

Verlag: Random House UK, 2014

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER McCALL SMITHThe Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion. 'The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' IndependentElizabeth Bennet 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 the affable Mr Bingley and arrogant Mr Darcy in the neighbourhoos, both single and in possession of large fortunes, turns all their lives upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry, enmity and love.

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"An incredibly funny, very upmarket love story with an enchanting heroine and the perfect romantic hero: a tartar with a heart of gold" (Jilly Cooper)

"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)

"The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste" (Virginia Woolf)

"I am a great admirer of Jane Austen" (Alexander McCall Smith)

"The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist" (Independent)

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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.

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

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• Verlag: Random House UK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0099589338
• ISBN 13: 9780099589334
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512