One of the most famous opening sentences in English literature belongs to Pride and Prejudice, presented here with Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. This ironic novel of manners follows the garrulous, empty-headed Mrs Bennet as she pursues her single ambition of marrying off each of her five daughters, mocked all the while by her cynical, indolent husband. Pride and Prejudice owes its enduring popularity, as one of the English language’s most cherished novels, to its wit, its precise social observation and, above all, its irresistible heroine.
ISBN 13: 9781853260001
Author: Jane Austen
