Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Robert Irvine (Editor)

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Elizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: Elizabeth forms a prejudice against the proud and distant Mr. Darcy; Darcy's charming friend Charles Bingley falls in love with her sister Jane; and the handsome officer George Wickham forms attachments successively to Elizabeth and to her sister Lydia.

Irvine's extensive introduction sets the novel in the context of the literary and intellectual history of the period, and deals with such crucial background issues as early-nineteenth century class relations in Britain, and female exclusion from property and power. The appendices present an unrivaled selection of background contextual documents.
  • ISBN13 9781551110288
  • Publish Date 30 April 2020 (first published 1 January 1819)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 11 March 2021
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Broadview Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 493
  • Language English