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Pride and Prejudice
Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author)
ISBN: 1545547564     ISBN-13: 9781545547564
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE:   $16.39  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 1190
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6" W x 9" (1.21 lbs) 414 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Chronological Period - 1800-1850
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Family
 
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Publisher Description:
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgements and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy of the writing lies in the depiction of manners, education, and marriage and money in the British Regency.Mr Bennet of the Longbourn estate has five daughters, but his property is entailed, meaning that none of the girls can inherit it. Since his wife had no fortune, it is imperative that one of the girls marries well in order to support the others on his death. However, Jane Austen's opening line 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife' is a sentence filled with irony and playfulness. The novel revolves around the necessity of marrying for love, not simply for mercenary reasons despite the social pressures to make a good (i.e. wealthy) match.