Pride and Prejudice (Color Illustrations Edition)

Author: Jane Austen (UK)
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Pride and Prejudice is one of the most renowned and enduring works in the world, included in Maugham's recommended "Top Ten World Novel Classics," and Austen's most beloved and widely disseminated work. Jane Austen is one of the few famous female writers in the world, known as a "miniature painter" and "domestic novelist" between the neoclassicism and the lyricalism of the Romantic movement. Literary critics regard her as a British writer comparable to Shakespeare in terms of immortality. According to the BBC's "Top Favorite Novels of the British People" survey released on December 13, 2003, Pride and Prejudice ranked second. In 1985, it was selected by LIFE magazine as one of the "Best Books of All Time," ranking fourth.