| Pride and Prejudice Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author), Quindlen, Anna (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679783261 ISBN-13: 9780679783268 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $8.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2000 Annotation: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." So begins "Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the "most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author's works," and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as "irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - Historical - Victorian |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95006310 |
| Lexile Measure: 1190 |
| Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.26" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 714 Reading Level: 12.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 27.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Introduction by Anna Quindlen Commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the "most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author's works," and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as "irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be." Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide |