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Pride And Prejudice

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Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters.

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823.7 AUS P 02

823.7 AUS P 02

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823.7 AUS P 02

Publisher

Australia : Kingford edions., 2009

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351 Pages ; 20 cm

Language

English

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9781848373105

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823.7

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Fiction
Literature
Classics
Romance

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