Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Of all Jane Austen's books, Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of the Bennet family and of the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove 'rather too light and bright, and sparkling', delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who encounter it for the first time. Jane Austen's artistry is apparent, too, in the delineation of the minor characters: the ill-matched Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Charles Bingley and his sisters, and above all the fatuous Mr. Collins, whose proposal to Elizabeth Bennet is one of the finest comic passages in English literature. And while she entertains us, Jane Austen teaches us the wisdom of balance, the folly of 'pride' and 'prejudice'.

Produktdetails

• Enriched Classics
• Verlag: Washington Square Press
• Enriched Classi
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Altersempfehlung: 12 bis 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 173mm x 106mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780743487597
• ISBN-10: 0743487591
• Artikelnr.: 21471038

Autorenporträt

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels—Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion—which observe and critique the British gentry of the late eighteenth century. Her mastery of wit, irony, and social commentary made her a beloved and acclaimed author in her lifetime, a distinction she still enjoys today around the world.

Jane Austen, gemalt von ihrer Schwester Cassandra, Ausschnitt