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All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader`s understanding of these enduring works. `It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. `Thus memorably begins Jane Austen`s Pride and Prejudice, one of the world`s most popular novels. Pride and Prejudice—Austen`s own `darling child`—tells the story of fiercely independent Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters who must marry rich, as she confounds the arrogant, wealthy Mr. Darcy. What ensues is one of the most delightful and engrossingly readable courtships known to literature, written by a precocious Austen when she was just twenty-one years old.