PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (PENGUIN CLASSICS)

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life."eries of provincial middle-class life in early nineteenth-century England. This edition also includes a new chronology, additional suggestions for further reading, and the original ""Penguin Classics"" introduction by Tony Tanner. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. Austen began writing at a young age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work, ""Pride and Prejudice"", at the age of 22. She was the author of ""Sense and Sensibility"", ""Pride and Prejudice"", ""Emma"", ""Persuasion"", ""Mansfield Park"" and ""Northanger Abbey"". If you liked ""Pride and Prejudice"", you may enjoy Charlotte Bronte's ""Jane Eyre"", also available in ""Penguin Classics"". ""The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal"". (Virginia Woolf). ""As nearly flawless as any fiction could be"". (Eudora Welty). """"Pride and Prejudice"" has always been the most popular of Jane Austen's books...with its good humoured comedy, its sunny heroine, its dream denouement"". (Claire Tomalin)."