Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic. When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy,she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands,so when Darcy's friend,the affable Mr Bingley,forms an attachment to Jane,Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship,rivalry and love - Jane Austen's classic romance novel. One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099511151Number of pages: 384Weight: 266 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 23 mm
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Packed with wit.The best-loved book by our best-loved novelistThe wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her tasteLike Irvine Welsh,I am a great admirer of Jane AustenAnother question I've been regularly asked over the past year is what models I had in mind when writing Curious Incident. Was it To Kill a Mockingbird Was it Catcher in the Rye In fact,the book most often in my mind was Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Romantic,witty,acerbic and endlessly popular,Jane Austen's novels are amongst the most revered,relevant and consistently readable novels in English Literature.
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Alexander McCall Smith (or Sandy as he is often known) has written and contributed to over a hundred books including fiction,non-fiction and more than thirty children's books but he is best known for his No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series set in Botswana which has sold over twenty million copies worldwide.
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