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

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Pride and Prejudice

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Jane Austen

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Austen's most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, now in a collectible Deluxe Edition celebrating the 250th anniversary of the author's birth

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

Introduction by Anna Quindlen
Commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

“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, Jane Austen’s witty comedy of manners—one of the most popular novels of all time—that features 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

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