Small Paperback, Very Good Condtion, 1990, 360 pages, ISBN 0 14 043 072 5

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice, first published in 1813, is probably Jane Austen’s best-loved work and certainly on the most enduringly popular of all English novels. In Elizabeth Bennet the author drew a supremely spirited and attractive heroine – ‘I must confess that I think of her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print’ – her encounter with the proud Darcy is surely on of the most charming of all love stories. Beneath the delicate and sparkling surface, however, may lie a sense of the oppositions of playfulness and regulation, of energy and order, of Romantic values and Classical virtues, and of the civilised balance between them.