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Beautiful new edition! Our customers are always looking for collectible covers, interesting endpapers, and modern looks of timeless classics.

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I mean, it's a classic for a reason. Or, if I had to be more accurate: a "tale as tale as old as time." Austen's prose, still, somehow two hundred years later, feels better and more easier to get through than books from last month. Her prose are simple, yet filled with wit and charm that are so undeniably Austen. This book, two hundred years later, continues to be one of the most wholesome books ever made that makes you want to find love yourself.

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A lovely addition...

To anyone's library. We've all read (or watched) Pride and Prejudice and now its time to add a lovely hard cover to your library. There are stories we treasure and this is the author that spawned all the tropes we are still reading today. This is possibly the most loved and treasured story, so why not add it to your library?
Recommend.

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Wild as it sounds (especially for someone who generally likes Classics), this is my first time reading Pride and Prejudice.

For me this book is more something to appreciate rather than something I actually liked, which I expected and is probably why I put off reading it for so long. This won’t be my favorite Jane Austen by any stretch, though it’s certainly hard to find any true flaws in it.

It’s tough to get terribly invested in the plot, which I 100% marriage market stuff, but I love the way Austen writes, and though I didn’t feel particularly invested in the story, I definitely enjoyed spending time immersed in this world. To say Austen is a better writer than plotter feels accurate to me, but that’s probably largely driven by taste rather than objective criticism.

I’m glad I read this and was impressed with this new edition of the book (particularly in the aesthetic sense), but I much prefer Austen’s books that incorporate a bit more mystery to the plot.

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