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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)

Name: Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Rating: 5 (15 reviews)
Author: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780141439518

Jane Austen · 2000 · 435 pages

"When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited, while he struggles to remain indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever"--Book cover p. [4].

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Brian Koppelman
“@SherriPizza No. I LOVE that book.”↗
Peter Singer
“If this is not the best novel ever written, I don’t know what surpasses it for fine observation of manners, character and passions, all told with the most delightfully delicate sense of humour.”↗
Maria Shriver
“I love this quote from one of my favorite books from childhood. What are some of your favorite #love quotes? Keep ‘em coming! #ValentinesDay”↗
Marlon James
“Because nobody has ever been slyer with characters than Austen. It still blows my mind that her unsavory, and unfortunate characters (Mrs. Bennett, Lady Catherine, Charlotte), are the only ones who truly know what time it is.”↗
Richard E. Grant
“Class, money and marriage in a book that manages to combine insight, malice and the magnificence of romantic misunderstanding.”↗
Martin Amis
“Unlike many other writers, I started reading very late. For a long time, I only read comics and super-hero stories, then one day, my stepmother [Elizabeth Jane Howard] – who’s also a novelist – insisted that I read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. After half an hour, I knocked at her door to know how it finished, I had to know whether Elizabeth Bennet was going to fall for Darcy. That’s how I started reading. I read a lot the year I was at boarding school in Brighton, I think when you’re 15, you read in a different way, with an intensity that you rarely experience as you get older.”↗
Michael Eisen
“@Spacekatgal 1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 2. War with the Newts by Karel Čapek 3. Snow Crash”↗
Renee DiResta
“@tar_xvzf Who isn’t?! Great book.”↗
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