Pride and Prejudice (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) FROM OUR EDITORS
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FROM THE PUBLISHER
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man
in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' Thus memorably
begins Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, one of the world's most
popular novels. Pride and Prejudice—Austen's own 'darling child'—tells
the story of fiercely independent Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters who
must marry rich, as she confounds the arrogant, wealthy Mr. Darcy. What
ensues is one of the most delightful and engrossingly readable courtships
known to literature, written by a precocious Austen when she was just
twenty-one years old.
Humorous and profound, and filled with highly entertaining dialogue, this
witty comedy of manners dips and turns through drawing-rooms and plots to
reach an immensely satisfying finale. In the words of Eudora Welty, Pride
and Prejudice is as 'irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction
could be.'
Carol Howard, educated at SUNY Purchase and Columbia University, where
she received her Ph.D. in 1999, chairs the English Department and teaches in
the Theater Department at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.
She has published essays on early British and contemporary African-American
women writers and has coedited two books on British writers (1996, 1997). Her
primary scholarly interest is the literature of seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century England.
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