Pride and Prejudice
Author: first_name: Jane
last_name: Austen
Language: English
Year: 1813

<em>Pride and Prejudice</em> is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797, and was initially called <em>First Impressions</em>, but was never published under that title. Following revisions it was published on 28 January 1813 by the same Mr. Egerton of t