Synopsis
In a remote Hertfordshire community, the Bennet family has a sensitive enterprise - Mr Bennet must marry off his five young daughters if any of them is to inherit his estate after he has died. So with the arrival of some eligible young men in the neighbourhood, naturally there is excitement.
Meg Cabot, the author of The Princess Diaries, introduces the novel, telling what got her hooked on the book. And an information section at the back covers breaking news, fashion, crime and punishment and music from the time when the novel was published.
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About Jane Austen
Jane Austen
1775–1817
Jane Austen was an English writer. Although Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. The most urgent preoccupations of her bright, young heroines are courtship and marriage. Austen herself never married. Her best-known books include *Pride and Prejudice* (1813) and *Emma* (1816). Virginia Woolf called Austen "the most perfect artist among women.
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