Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen - Paperback
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Published: 12/01/1983
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780553213102
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 12
Point Value: 27
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 714 / Pride and Prejudice (Unabridged)
About the Author
Though the domain of Jane Austen's novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775, she was educated mainly at home. At an early age she began writing sketches and satires of popular novels for her family's entertainment. As a clergyman's daughter from a well-connected family, she had an ample opportunity to study the habits of the middle class, the gentry, and the aristocracy. At twenty-one, she began a novel called "The First Impressions" an early version of Pride and Prejudice. In 1801, on her father's retirement, the family moved to the fashionable resort of Bath. Two years later she sold the first version of Northanger Abby to a London publisher, but the first of her novels to appear was Sense and Sensibility, published at her own expense in 1811. It was followed by Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815).