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  • Published: 15 December 2000
  • ISBN: 9780679783268
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $19.99

Pride and Prejudice




Jane Austen's classic romance novel, soon to be a major Netflix series adapted by Dolly Alderton.

Sparkling with wit and timeless observations, Jane Austen’s iconic comedy of manners remains one of the most popular novels of all time—soon to be a Netflix miniseries starring Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden, Olivia Colman, and Rufus Sewell

Introduction by Anna Quindlen

“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, which still dazzles readers with 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 and commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf

  • Published: 15 December 2000
  • ISBN: 9780679783268
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $19.99

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About the author

Jane Austen

Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.

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