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Pride and Prejudice - Literary Touchstone Edition
Pride and Prejudice - Literary Touchstone Edition Author:Jane Austen This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition� includes a glossary and reader�s notes to help the modern reader enjoy the characters and situations as Austen intended and not merely as relics of a long-past era. Jane�s Austen�s delightfully scathing satire on class, pride, and proper behavior is as beloved today as it was when first publ... more »ished in 1813. The long road that the quick-witted, sharp-tongued Elizabeth Bennet and the haughty Darcy travel from mutual disdain to unfulfilled longing and finally to love and marriage is beset with obstacles in the form of Elizabeth�s insufferable mother, irrepressible younger sister, and Darcy�s own secret pain. In Pride and Prejudice, Austen has captured not only the frivolous sensibilities of early-nineteenth-century provincial England, but also the hearts and minds of anyone who has loved outside of social expectations and aspired to a happiness beyond mere propriety.« less