Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

KORTE INHOUD

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet of Logbourne, Herfordshire, have five daughters, and when the wealthy Charles Bingley takes nearby Netherfield it is clear to Mrs. Bennet that he must marry one of them. And indeed, the marriage of Bingley and Jane, the eldest, seems made not merely in a silly mother's imagination but in heaven, with only the interference of a well-meaning friend to postpone the outcome. But for that friend, Darcy, and for Elizabeth Bennet, the course of love is a more complex one, bedevilled by their first impression
Jane Austen's best-loved novel contains her most arresting portret gallery: the famous and sycophanic Mr. Collins, the steamroller Lady Catherine de Bourgh, vulgar Mrs. Bennet, sardonic and ineffectual Mr. Bennet, beautiful good-hearted Jane, mothball-morality Mary, flightly Lydia and Kitty, and the immortal Elizabeth, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print".
JANE AUSTEN was born in 1775 at Stevenson in Hampshire, and began writing in her teens. 'Sense ande Sensibility' was publis...
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1996Uitgever: Könemann classicsReeks: Könemann classics358 paginasTaal: Engels