02866cam a2200481 i 4500 517054344 TxAuBib 20030328120000.0 200528s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780141040349 0141040343 TxAuBib rda Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Pride and prejudice / by Jane Austen ; edited with an introduction by Vivien Jones. New York : Penguin Books, 2018. 339 p. ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Acknowledgements -- The Penguin edition of the novels of Jane Austen -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Further reading -- Note on the text -- Pride and prejudice -- Volume one -- Volume two -- Volume three -- Appendix : Original Penguin classics introduction / by Tony Tanner -- Emendations to the text -- Notes. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." With this famous declaration, Jane Austen launches into the story of the five Bennet sisters, a story that on first reading is full of suspense, surprise and, ultimately, satisfaction, and which on re-reading commands a deeper admiration for the author's remarkable skill in managing a deceptively complex plot to its triumphant conclusion. First published in 1813, and Austen's most popular novel in her own lifetime, Pride and Prejudice has since been widely recognised as one of the finest novels in the English language. In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, and the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. 20030328. Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious character) Fiction. Darcy, Fitzwilliam (Fictitious character) Fiction. Social classes England History Fiction. Young women England Fiction. Courtship England Fiction. Courtship Fiction. Sisters England Fiction. Families & Relationships England Fiction. Great Britain History 1714-1837 Fiction. England Social life and customs Fiction. Romance. Domestic fiction. Jones, Vivien. Penguin Books. BTCLS