Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Herausgeber: Rogers, Pat

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1813, and Austen's most popular novel in her own lifetime, Pride and Prejudice has since been widely recognised as one of the finest novels in the English language. This edition, first published in 2006, is an indispensable resource for all scholars and readers of Austen.

Produktdetails

• The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780521825146
• ISBN-10: 0521825148
• Artikelnr.: 21176078

Autorenporträt

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist. She wrote many books of romantic fiction about the gentry. Her works made her one of the most famous and beloved writers in English literature. She is one of the great masters of the English novel. Austen's works criticized sentimental novels in the late 18th century, and are part of the change to nineteenth- realism. She wrote about typical people in everyday life. This gave the English novel its first distinctly modern character. Austen's stories are often comic, but they also show how women depended on marriage for social standing and economic security. Her works are also about moral problems. Jane Austen was very modest about her own genius. She once famously described her work as "the little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory, on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labor." She had been working on a new novel, Sanditon, but she died before she could finish it. She is now a well known great writer.

Jane Austen, gemalt von ihrer Schwester Cassandra, Ausschnitt

Inhaltsangabe

General Editor's preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
Note on the text
Pride and Prejudice
Appendices
Emendations
Abbreviations
Explanatory notes.