3 Jane Austen Classic: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, HC


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Author:	Jane Austen	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Modern Library	ISBN-10:	0679601686
ISBN-13:	9780679601685	Educational Level:	--
Product Type:	--	Publication Year:	1995
Subject:	--	Language:	English
Condition:	Very Good

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Synopsis
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. Includes explanatory notes throughout the text, an introduction discussing the author and the background of the story, and a study guide.
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Series:	Modern Library Series

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Length:	281 pages
Height:	8.3 in.
Width:	5.8 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	15.2 oz.

Publisher's Note
"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 Austens 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 Librarys 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.
Industry reviews
"Arrange the great English novelists as one will, it does not seem possible to bring them out in any order where she is not the first, or second or third, whoever her companions may be....A little aloof, a little inscrutable and mysterious, she will always remain, but serene and beautiful also because of her greatness as an artist." Times Literary Supplement - Virginia Woolf (05/08/1913) "Five charming sisters on the gayest, merriest manhunt that ever snared a bewildered bachelor! Girls! Take a lesson from these husband hunters!" MGM promotion of the 1940 film of the novel "She thought an unattached young woman with intelligence...was the most marvelous creature in the world...What must have made this type so appealing to her, of course, was that this was the only time in their lives in which women like that had an absolute power--if only the power to withhold themselves--over the desires of a man. Austen felt keenly the fragility of the circumstance...This is what makes the scene of Darcy's first proposal so potent: Elizabeth will never experience again so fine an emotional surge as she does when she spurns him. It is the one context in which she is permitted to say exactly what she feels." New York Review of Books - Louis Menand (02/01/1996) "This writer of marriage stories...had a mind as interesting as any novelist who has ever lived. In Jane Austen, the mating game assumes dimensions that Boccaccio ignored--the joining of understanding and temperament, property and taste, as well as body and body. If marriage had become the central rite of the new materialist society of Austen's England, it was also the central trial of an individual's worth, which...became the test of his or her ability to perceive and to know." "Great Books" - David Denby "Women, we gather, are seldom artists, because they have a passion for detail which conflicts with the proper artistic proportion of their work. We would cite Sappho and Jane Austen as examples of two great women who combine exquisite detail with a supreme sense of artistic proportion." Virginia Woolf "The work [i.e. 'Pride and Prejudice'] is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story; an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonaparte, on anything that would form a contrast, and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style." Jane Austen

THIS BARNES & NOBLE BOOK HAS THREE COMPLETE NOVELS AND HAS 882 PAGES OF 3 JANE AUSTEN CLASSICS. IT HAS AN EXCELLENT APPEARANCE AND WOULD BE LIKE NEW EXCEPT THAT THERE IS A SMALL STICKER ON THE INSIDE COVER AND A SMALL TEAR ON THE SPINE OF THE JACKET. IT IS BOOK THAT YOU WILL BE PROUD TO OWN AND ENJOY!!

1. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

2. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

3. EMMA

I SHIP NEXT DAY ON MOST ORDERS, PLEASE CHECK MY FEEDBACK, AND THANKS FOR LOOKING!!

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