Pride and Prejudice


Pride and Prejudice
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1 year, 6 months ago at Nov 4 2:00
i readied the book twice i can say it's more then fenomenal. It's a book a gladly recommed. The characters are perfect contured and is full of action. The way Austean describes their fellings is unique.

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1 year, 2 months ago at Mar 7 4:42
Good old uptight Darcy, one of the most enduring romantic heroes in fiction. This book started a persistent trend which has continued to this day, although the most recent incarnation of Darcy and Bennet has them battling zombies… Anyway, the original (and in my opinion the best) showcases Austen at her finest, lighthearted and reveling in the sparkling wordplay of her characters. Highly recomme... read more
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Description: Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character, who if provoked is not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp -- but a ... (more)
Manufacturer : Bantam Classics
Release date : 1 December 1983
ISBN-10 : 0553213105 | ISBN-13: 9780553213102
Romance (4), Jane Austen (3), Classics (3), Drama (3), 19th Century (3), Social Commentary (2), Movie (2), Marriage (2), Social Criticism (2), Social Status (2), Fiction (2), Regency (2), Love (2), 1983 (2), Own (2), Classic (2), (2), Brit Lit (2), Wrong Impressions (1), Classical (1)
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"Jane Austen’s father submitted an early version of Pride and Prejudice, under the title First Impressions, to a publisher who rejected it. Austen spent fifteen years rewriting the novel (1798 to 1813, when the book was published), and changed the title to a phrase probably taken (in homage) from Fanny Burney's novel Cecilia."


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“Good old uptight Darcy, one of the most enduring romantic heroes in fiction. This book started a persistent trend which has continued to this day, although the most recent incarnation of Darcy and Bennet has them battling zombies… Anyway, the original (and in my opinion the best) showcases Austen at her finest, lighthearted and reveling in the sparkling wordplay of her characters. Highly recommended.

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“i readied the book twice i can say it's more then fenomenal. It's a book a gladly recommed. The characters are perfect contured and is full of action. The way Austean describes their fellings is unique.” read more

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