Pride and Prejudice - (Vintage Classics) by Jane Austen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>No novel in English has given more pleasure than <i>Pride and Prejudice. </i>Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it--and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.</p><p>We are captivated not only by the novel's romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit in its pages. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by Jane Austen's wit and feeling but by her subtle observation of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to each other and ourselves.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste."<br>--Virginia Woolf<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Though the domain of Jane Austen's novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775, she was educated mainly at home. At an early age she began writing sketches and satires of popular novels for her family's entertainment. As a clergyman's daughter from a well-connected family, she had an ample opportunity to study the habits of the middle class, the gentry, and the aristocracy. At twenty-one, she began a novel called "The First Impressions" an early version of <b>Pride and Prejudice</b>. In 1801, on her father's retirement, the family moved to the fashionable resort of Bath. Two years later she sold the first version of <b>Northanger Abby</b> to a London publisher, but the first of her novels to appear was <b>Sense and Sensibility</b>, published at her own expense in 1811. It was followed by <b>Pride and Prejudice </b>(1813), <b>Mansfield Park </b>(1814), and <b>Emma </b>(1815). <p/> After her father died in 1805, the family first moved to Southampton then to Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Despite this relative retirement, Jane Austen was still in touch with a wider world, mainly through her brothers; one had become a very rich country gentleman, another a London banker, and two were naval officers. Though her many novels were published anonymously, she had many early and devoted readers, among them the Prince Regent and Sir Walter Scott. In 1816, in declining health, Austen wrote <b>Persuasion </b>and revised <b>Northanger Abby</b>, Her last work, <i>Sandition</i>, was left unfinished at her death on July 18, 1817. She was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Austen's identity as an author was announced to the world posthumously by her brother Henry, who supervised the publication of <b>Northanger Abby</b> and <b>Persuasion</b> in 1818.
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