Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)

by Jane Austen

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Canonical Title

Pride and Prejudice

Original publication date

1813-01-28

1972 - this Penguin ed.

Important places

Hertfordshire, England, UK

Pemberly

Derbyshire, England, UK

London, England, UK

Kent, England, UK

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Awards and honors

BBC's Big Read (Best loved novel, 2003, No 02)

Epigraph

First words

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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Disambiguation notice

For the recently-published annotated edition, see The Annotated Pride and Prejudice.

For Austen's text without annotations, see Pride and Prejudice.

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Quatrième de couverture : Orgueil et préjugés est le plus connu des six romans achevés de Jane Austen. Son histoire, sa question, est en apparence celle d'un mariage : l'héroïne, la vive et ironique Elizabeth Bennett qui n'est pas riche, aimera-t-elle le héros, le riche et orgueilleux Darcy ?
Si oui, en sera-t-elle aimée ?
Si oui, encore, l'épousera-t-elle ?
Mais il apparaît clairement qu'il n'y a en fait qu'un héros qui est l'héroïne, et que c'est par elle, en elle et pour elle que tout se passe.

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Amazon.com (ISBN 0553213105, Mass Market Paperback)

Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character, who if provoked is not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp -- but always polite -- 18th century wit. The point is, you spend the whole book absolutely fixated on the critical question: will Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy hook up?

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