Pride and Prejudice – Vintage

Pride and Prejudice – Vintage

This beautifully typeset edition of Pride and Prejudice is amongst the most universally loved and admired English novels, highly popular and entertaining. The consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775–1817) transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life that is now regarded as one of the principal treasures of English language. In a remote Hertfordshire village, far off the good coach roads of George III’s England, a country squire of no great means must marry off his five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise are his headstrong second daughter Elizabeth Bennet and her aristocratic suitor Fitzwilliam Darcy – two lovers whose pride must be humbled and prejudices dissolved before the novel can come to its splendid conclusion. This work is also a selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.