Pride And Prejudice
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few novels in the English language have endured with such fierce and universal appeal as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice — a story that begins with the deceptively simple truth that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Set in the genteel rural society of Regency England, the novel chronicles the spirited Elizabeth Bennet and her turbulent relationship with the wealthy, enigmatic Mr. Darcy, as misunderstanding, social pressure, and the quiet tyranny of first impressions conspire to keep them apart. With razor-sharp wit and an unflinching eye for social hypocrisy, Austen constructs a world where marriage is both a romantic ideal and a brutal economic necessity, and where every drawing-room conversation conceals a battle of wills. Beyond its irresistible love story, Pride and Prejudice stands as one of the most incisive critiques of class and gender ever committed to the novel form. Austen's prose — deceptively light, devastatingly precise — illustrates the quiet limitations imposed on women of her era, while her characters remain so vivid and psychologically complex that they feel startlingly modern. With an introduction by the celebrated literary critic V. S. Pritchett, this Heron Books edition invites readers to rediscover Austen's masterwork through a fresh critical lens — and to ask themselves whether pride or prejudice is truly the greater obstacle to happiness.
Author: Jane Austen
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few novels in the English language have endured with such fierce and universal appeal as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice — a story that begins with the deceptively simple truth that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Set in the genteel rural society of Regency England, the novel chronicles the spirited Elizabeth Bennet and her turbulent relationship with the wealthy, enigmatic Mr. Darcy, as misunderstanding, social pressure, and the quiet tyranny of first impressions conspire to keep them apart. With razor-sharp wit and an unflinching eye for social hypocrisy, Austen constructs a world where marriage is both a romantic ideal and a brutal economic necessity, and where every drawing-room conversation conceals a battle of wills. Beyond its irresistible love story, Pride and Prejudice stands as one of the most incisive critiques of class and gender ever committed to the novel form. Austen's prose — deceptively light, devastatingly precise — illustrates the quiet limitations imposed on women of her era, while her characters remain so vivid and psychologically complex that they feel startlingly modern. With an introduction by the celebrated literary critic V. S. Pritchett, this Heron Books edition invites readers to rediscover Austen's masterwork through a fresh critical lens — and to ask themselves whether pride or prejudice is truly the greater obstacle to happiness.