Pride and Prejudice
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
$43.34
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
23 November 2009
Summary
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143105428 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143105426 |
| Author: | Jane Austen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | De Luxe edition |
| Release Date: | 23 November 2009 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 144mm x 214mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions |
| Audience Age: | 12-18 |
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Critics Review
“The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste.” —Virginia Woolf
“Nobody has ever been slyer with characters than Austen.” —Marlon James, “My 10 Favorite Books,” in T: The New York Times Style Magazine
Jane Austen
Jane Austen, born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775, 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 ample opportunity to study the habits of the middle class, the gentry, and the aristocracy.
At 21, she began a novel called “The First Impressions,” an early version of Pride and Prejudice. 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 Northanger Abbey to a London publisher, but the first of her novels to appear in print was Sense and Sensibility, published at her own expense in 1811. It was followed by Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815).
After her father died in 1805, the family moved first 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 Persuasion and revised Northanger Abbey. Her last work, Sanditon, 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 Northanger Abbey and Persuasion in 1818.
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