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Pride and Prejudice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Pride and prejudice ) This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Pride and Prejudice (disambiguation) . Pride and Prejudice   Author(s) Jane Austen Country United Kingdom Language English Genre(s) Novel of manners , Satire Publisher T. Egerton, Whitehall Publication date 28 January 1813 Media type Print ( Hardback , 3 volumes) ISBN NA Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen , first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman, living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire , near London . Though the story is set at the turn of the 19th century, it retains a fascination for modern reade

SOLVED QUESTION PAPER OF FIRST YEAR HIGHER SECONDARY IMPROVEMENT EXAMINATION PART –I ENGLISH 1.        a)Think that you are enacting the play “The Never Never Nest”. You have written the following notice to be put up in the school auditorium where the play is being staged. ENTRY RESTRICTED BY PASS Write two other notices which you want to put up there. SWITCH OFF YOUR MOBILE PHONE HEARTY WELCOME TO THIS PROGRAMME.                 b)Before the enactment you want to introduce the play “The Never- Never Nest” to the audience. Prepare the script of your introductory speech in three or four sentences.(Hints: Name of the Play- Author- theme- characters in the play –cast and credit etc) A) Ladies and Gentlemen,                                                 Today we all are assembled here in this auditorium to watch the play “The Never-Never Nest” written by Cedric Mount. This is a satirical play on the hire purchase system . T

The Course of the Campaign. 514 BC.— Darius throughout this campaign showed his usual military capacity. Before setting his great army in motion, he ordered the Satrap of Cappadocia to make a raid on the northern coast of the Black Sea, mainly with a view to capturing some prisoners. This preliminary operation was carried out with complete success, and among the captives was the brother of a local chief, whose information must have been of considerable value. The great expedition started about 512 BC crossing the Bosphorus, in the neighborhood of modern Constantinople, on a bridge of boats built by the Greek cities of Asia Minor and guarded by the Greek cities of the neighborhood. Thence, keeping near the coast of the Black Sea and receiving the submission of the Thracians, of whom only one tribe attempted resistance, the huge force, accompanied by the fleet, marched to the delta of the Danube. At the head of the delta, a second bridge of boats was constructed by the tyrants of th

Silent Spring From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Silent Spring    The  Book-of-the-Month Club  edition, with included endorsement by  William O. Douglas Author(s) Rachel Carson Country United States Language English Subject(s) Environmentalism Publisher Houghton Mifflin Publication date September 27, 1962 Media type Hardcover/paperback Silent Spring  is a book written by  Rachel Carson  and published by  Houghton Mifflin  on 27 September 1962. [ 1 ] The book is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement . [ Background By tradition and by Carson's own public assertions, the impetus for  Silent Spring  was ostensibly a letter written in January 1958 [ 7 ]  by Carson's friend, Olga Owens Huckins, [ 8 ]  to  The Boston Herald , describing the death of numerous birds around her property resulting from the aerial spraying of DDT to kill mosquitoes, a copy of which Huckins sent to Carson. [ 8 ]  Carson has stated that the letter prompted her to turn