Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Publisher:

Charles Scribner’s Sons

, 1918

Overview

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most famous and widely-read work. Begun in 1796 and initially entitled First Impressions, it was renamed Pride and Prejudice before it was finally published in 1813. Rich with satire, this novel of manners features the five Bennet sisters, daughters of a country gentleman of fading fortune in Hertfordshire. Austen follows the two eldest sisters, Jane and Elizabeth, as they navigate nineteenth-century society—as women without income or high family connections—in their search for security, love, and happy marriages.

Product Details

• Title: Pride and Prejudice
• Author: Jane Austen
• Series: The Modern Student’s Library
• Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
• Print Publication Date: 1918
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• Subjects: Social classes › Fiction; Young women › Fiction; Courtship › Fiction
• Resource ID: LLS:PRIDEPREJUDICE
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-15T07:44:30Z

About Jane Austen

Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist known for her fiction set among England’s landed gentry. She was the seventh of eight children and was educated mostly at home in Hampshire. Her best-known works include Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Although her novels, all of which were published anonymously, did not bring her fame during her lifetime, she is now one of the most widely read writers in the English language.