Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
1817 · 628 pages
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Edition
- Third edition, in two volumes (both volumes in this file)
- Published
- London, printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall (printer: C. Roworth), 1817
- Pages
- 628
- File
- DjVu, 24.6 MB
- Text search
- yes
- Rights
- public domain
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About the book
Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s second published novel. It first appeared anonymously in January 1813, credited only to the author of Sense and Sensibility, and it has been one of the most widely read novels in English ever since.
The story follows the Bennet family of Longbourn, five daughters with no fortune and an estate entailed away to a cousin. When the wealthy Mr Bingley and his proud friend Mr Darcy arrive in the neighbourhood, Elizabeth Bennet takes an instant dislike to Darcy, and he to her family. Over the course of the book both learn how far first impressions, pride and prejudice have misled them.
The novel is admired for its witty dialogue, its irony and its close look at money, marriage and social rank in the English gentry. Characters such as Mr Collins, Mrs Bennet and Lady Catherine de Bourgh became fixtures of English comedy, and the opening sentence is among the best-known in literature.
Contents
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About this edition
The third edition, printed for Thomas Egerton in London in 1817, the year of Austen’s death, and still anonymous. The first edition had three volumes; this one resets the text in two, and both are in this scan, each with its own title page. The scan includes the original binding and blank leaves, and it has a text layer, so the book can be searched. In the second volume the chapter numbering jumps from XI to XIII, as printed.
How to read it
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Source
A scan from the Wikimedia Foundation's open projects. The book is in the public domain: free to read, download and share.