Pride and Prejudice

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Written by: Jane Austen

In the satiric love story Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen portrays her heroine Lydia Bennet as an intelligent and spiritedly free-wheeling young woman, attracted to a proud and wealthy man against whom she is intensely prejudiced from the very beginning of their association.

Austen’s colourful characters living in a small English Country village are life-like – the cynic Mr. Bennet, the dull-witted Sir William Lucas, the pedantic Mary Bennet and the conceited Mr. Collins et al. Whilst Austen’s abhorrence is reserved for the un-ladylike conduct of one woman, or the blockheaded oafishness of another character, she heaps accolades on the very British proclivity towards decent deportment & good common sense.

Highly acclaimed Pride & Prejudice is in remarkable contrast with the typically violent thrillers or extremely sentimental novels of her era.

386 pages