03321cam a2200421Ia 4500 northangerabbeyb00aust_1 CaSfIA 20250906131824.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 021121s1996 nyu o 000 1 eng 95006310 YMM eng YMM OCLCQ XY4 OCLCQ XY4 OCLCG TOH BDX OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCA OCL OCLCO OCLCA LKC OCLCA ZGJ OCLCO CaSfIA 0679601686 9780679601685 e-uk-en PR4034 .P7 1996 FICTION AUS Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen ; introduction by Anna Quindlen. New York : Modern Library, ©1996. 1 online resource (ix, 281 pages) text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's perfect comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. "Pride and Prejudice seems as vital today as ever," writes Anna Quindlen in her introduction to this Modern Library edition. "It is a pure joy to read." Eudora Welty agrees: "The gaiety is unextinguished, the irony has kept its bite, the reasoning is still sweet, the sparkle undiminished. [It is] irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be." This volume is the companion to the BBC television series, a lavish production aired on the Arts and Entertainment Network. The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious character) Fiction. Darcy, Fitzwilliam (Fictitious character) Fiction. Young women Fiction. England Fiction. Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious character) fast (OCoLC)fst00830497 Darcy, Fitzwilliam (Fictitious character) fast (OCoLC)fst00887810 Young women. fast (OCoLC)fst01183301 England. fast (OCoLC)fst01219920 Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787 Love stories. gsafd https://archive.org/details/northangerabbeyb00aust_1 Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL37876800M Additional information and access via Open Library northangerabbeyb00aust_1 ark:/13960/t1qf9zr6t