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Pride and prejudice : a play, founded on Jane Austen's novel

Steele MacKaye, Jane Austen · 1906 · Scanned text · Free in the US

28,180 words · about 1 h 58 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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About this book

Authors
Steele MacKaye, Jane Austen
Language
English
Published
1906
Length
28,180 words · about 1 h 58 min
Sections
6 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States · PD-US by publication date

 

Contents (6)

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Front matter

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ACT IV The Shrubbery at Longbourn One Week Later

Place: England Time: 1796

"In the novels of the last hundred years there are vast numbers of young ladies with whom it might be a pleasure to fall in love, — but to live with and to marry, I do not know that any of them can come into competition with Elizabeth Bennet" — George Saintsbury. Preface to the Peacock Edition of "Pride and Prejudice."

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