Pride and prejudice
| dc.contributor.author | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | Oxford |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T15:52:07Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T15:52:07Z |
| dc.date.created | 1813 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0016 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0016 |
| dc.description.abstract | Resource deposited with the Oxford Text Archive. |
| dc.format.extent | Text data 687 KB |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Fiction -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.title | Pride and prejudice |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 686536 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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<T PRIDE AND PREJUDICE><V I><C I> IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man nay be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so ell fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of heir daughters. "My dear Mr. Bennet,' said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?' Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. "But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.' Mr. Bennet made no answer. "Do not you want to know who has taken it?' cried his wife impatiently. " You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.' This was invitation enough. "Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a . . .
