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Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Lit for Little Hands

by Jane Austen
Audio cassette
Publication Date: 01/10/1996

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Set in late eighteenth-century England, this wonderful love story contains dialogue that sparkles with wit and irony. Its ingenious and compelling plot, along with some of the most unforgettable characters ever created, have made Pride and Prejudice a favorite.
ISBN:
9789626346044
9789626346044
Category:
Romance
Format:
Audio cassette
Publication Date:
01-10-1996
Publisher:
Naxos of America, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
139.45x106.93x34.04mm
Weight:
0.23kg
Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon, near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on 18 July 1817.

Jane Austen was extremely modest about her own genius, describing her work to her nephew, Edward, as 'the little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory, on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces little effect after much labour'.

As a girl she wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were published only after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime.

These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1817 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.

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