Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 2013 - Fiction - 264 pages

The Graded Readers series brings to children a wide selection of favourite stories. Included in this series are the classics as well as more recent stories and novels. Wherever appropriate, the original text has been retained, and wherever necessary, it has been simplified. Vocabulary control is applied at each level.

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 5
• Section 3: 55
• Section 4: 75
• Section 5: 78
• Section 6: 119
• Section 7: 145
• Section 8: 194
• Section 9: 243

About the author

Jane Austen's life is striking for the contrast between the great works she wrote in secret and the outward appearance of being quite dull and ordinary. Austen was born in the small English town of Steventon in Hampshire, and educated at home by her clergyman father. She was deeply devoted to her family. For a short time, the Austens lived in the resort city of Bath, but when her father died, they returned to Steventon, where Austen lived until her death at the age of 41. Austen was drawn to literature early, she began writing novels that satirized both the writers and the manners of the 1790's. Her sharp sense of humor and keen eye for the ridiculous in human behavior gave her works lasting appeal. She is at her best in such books as Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), in which she examines and often ridicules the behavior of small groups of middle-class characters. Austen relies heavily on conversations among her characters to reveal their personalities, and at times her novels read almost like plays. Several of them have, in fact, been made into films. She is considered to be one of the most beloved British authors.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Pride and Prejudice
• Author: Jane Austen
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 2013
• ISBN: 8120752767, 9788120752764
• Length: 264 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Places / Europe