Pride And Prejudice
By
Jane Austen
Published By Lowell Press
New York
circa
1940
Titlepage is undated.
This style of binding is circa 1940.
5.5" x 8.5"
364 Pages.
Hardcover Binding.
Spine Decoration.
Pride And Predudice
By
Jane Austen
(1775-1817)
[ see biographical information below ]
** VERY NICE CONDITION **
The binding is in virtually As-New Condition, with almost no wear at all.
(see photo below)
The Hinges are Very Tight.
No writing.
No markings.
The Pages are Clean and in Excellent Condition.
Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be very out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, and the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards.
To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible.
Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't.
Pride and Prejudice is the story of independent-minded Elizabeth Bennet's journey to a happy marriage and her rousing rebellion against the stultifying and stale social system of 19th Century England - an adrenaline-rush of a book.
As Elizabeth battles the defenders of society (her marriage-obsessed mother, a condescending suitor, and several members of the "upper-class" trying to stem her promising relationship with the affluent and handsome Mr. Darcy) we sample a world w family, money, and class dictate one's friends and suitors.
Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, beautiful, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy...and yet not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp, but always polite, 18th century wit.
The suspense of the novel is created in knowing that Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy should be together, but their pride and prejudice (hence the title) are keeping them apart; a circumstance only a great effort will overcome.
Considered one of the best novels in ever written, and a Classic of English Literature.
*****
Offered With No Reserve
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Biographical Information:
Jane Austen
(1775-1817)
Jane Austen was born in the village of Steventon, Hampshire England in 1775, within five years of William Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott . She was the seventh of eight children. Her father, George, had been a Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford and lately Rector of Steventon. Her mother, Cassandra, nee Leigh, came from an ancient family, linked to the Leighs of Stonehill Abbey in Warwickshire. Jane and her sister, also Cassandra, were sent to school in Oxford and Southampton, before attending the Abbey School in Reading, and were encouraged to write from an early age. Jane started writing novels in 1790, at the age of only 14, while she was living in Steventon, although her first novel to be published, Sense and Sensibility, did not appear until 1811.
Although her early life appeared secure enough, it was touched by tragedy. Her cousin, Eliza Hancock, married a French nobleman, who was arrested and guillotined on his return to Paris soon after the French Revolution. Her aunt, Mrs. Leigh Perrot, was arrested when falsely accused of stealing a card of lace, and suffered eight months imprisonment with the threat of the death penalty, before she was able to prove her innocence.
On her father's retirement, in 1801, the family moved to Bath. Jane's years at Bath were not happy. The family made acquaintances, but few friends. Their stay at Bath was broken up by annual excursions to the seaside: to Sidmouth, Dawlish and Lyme Regis. As was the custom, the sons of the family pursued careers (two of Jane's bro...
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