Pride and prejudice - Brossura

Austen, Jane

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1853260002 ISBN 13: 9781853260001

Casa editrice: Wordsworth, 1992

Riassunto

Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.

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Recensione:

"The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste."
--Virginia Woolf

L'autore:

Jane Austen was born in 1775. She never married, and had no contact with the London literary circle; she, nevertheless, elevated her life, - a"little world of struggling clerical families, husband-hunting mothers and daughters, eligible clergymen and landowners, country fools and snobs" - into an enduring microcosm of the great world through her writings, distinguished by her "satirical wit and brilliant comedy, complex and subtle view of human nature, exquisite moral discrimination, and unobtrusive perfection of style.

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• Editore: Wordsworth
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1853260002
• ISBN 13: 9781853260001
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 329