Pride and Prejudice
Info
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Classic Lit.
- Publisher: Bantam Classics
- Type: Official Novel Book
- Release: Dec 01, 1983
- ASIN/ISBN: 0553213105
- Rating:
- Status: Read (352 Pages)
Review
On Oct 26, 2007 Corinne said:
"Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character, who if provoked is not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp -- but always polite -- 18th century wit. The point is, you spend the whole book absolutely fixated on the critical question: will Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy hook up?"
Details
It was "first published on 28 January 1813, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels and one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel.
Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797, initially called First Impressions, but was never published under that title. Following revisions, it was first published on 28 January 1813. Like both its predecessors, Sense and Sensibility, and Northanger Abbey, it was written in Steventon, Hampshire, where Austen lived in the rectory."