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Pride and Prejudice in Nigerian Pidgin: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, translated into Nigerian Pidgin from the original.
Original author: Jane Austen. Original title: Pride and Prejudice. Translated into Nigerian Pidgin from the English original.
Mrs Bennet get five daughter, no son, an’ one house wey by law must go to one cousin when her husband die. So when rich young man rent di big house near dem, na only one tin dey her mind.
But her second daughter Elizabeth get sharp mouth an’ sharp eye, an’ di proudest man for di whole party (Mr Darcy, ten thousand pound a year) talk say she no fine reach make man dance wit am. Wetin follow na di finest love story wey pesin ever write, an’ e be about two pipo wey both get to admit say dem bin dey wrong.
“Na truth wey di whole world don gree on top, say any man wey dey single, wey get better money for hand, must dey find wife.”
Dis na new translation of dis book to Naijá Pidgin, di language wey pass 100 million pipo dey speak. All 61 chapter dey inside, complete.
Dis Naijá Pidgin translation na new one wey dem make specially for dis edition.
About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #1342. Paperback, 152 x 229 mm, 402 pages, published by Cedar Pine. Cover: Thomas Gainsborough, Mr and Mrs William Hallett (‘The Morning Walk’), 1785, detail. National Gallery, London. Public domain.
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