Book description
'I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man
in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.' Romance,
misunderstandings, finding Mr Right and finding out who's Mr Wrong -
Pride and Prejudice is as relevant today as it has ever been. It's the
enchanting and enduring story of Lizzy Bennet (one of literature's most
engaging heroines), proud Mr Darcy, of true love, families, villains and
heroes and of course, pride and prejudice. Jane Austen was born in
1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, where her father was rector. When she was
25 the family moved to Bath till her father's death in 1805, then to
Chawton in Hampshire where Jane lived with her mother and sister. She
wrote six novels.
Sense and Sensibility
was first in 1811, then Pride and Prejudice
(1813), Mansfield Park
(1814) and Emma
(1816). Northanger Abbey
and Persusaion
were both published posthumously, in 1817. Jane Austen died in 1817.
Well-received during her lifetime, since her death she has become known
as not just one of the greatest writers of English fiction, but one of
the most beloved.
