num_pages: 333
description: The romantic clash of two opinionated young people provides the sustaining theme of Pride and Prejudice. Vivacious Elizabeth Bennett is fascinated and repelled by the arrogant Mr. Darcy, whose condescending airs and acrid tongue have alienated her entire family. Their spirited courtship is conducted against a background of assembly-ball flirtations and drawing-room intrigues. Jane Austen's famous novel captures the affections of class-conscious 18th century English families with matrimonial aims and rivalries. Her people are universal; they live a truth beyond time, change, or caricature. George Eliot called Jane Austen, "the greatest artist that has ever written," and Sir Walter Scott wrote of her work, "There is a truth of painting in her writings which always delights me."With an Afterword by Joann MorseSource: back cover"451-CE2365."Revised and updated bibliography.
language: English
title: Pride and Prejudice
titlecomplete: Pride and Prejudice
characters: Lydia Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Kitty Bennet, Mr. Gardiner, Mrs. Gardiner, Charles Bingley, Georgiana Darcy, Mr. William Collins, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Jane Bennet, Mary Bennet, Kitty Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Caroline Bingley, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Georgiana Da, Charlotte Lucas, Mr. Bennet, Caroline Bingley, George Wickham, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mrs. Bennet, Mary Bennet
genres: Romance, Fiction, Literature, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Adult, Audiobook, Historical, Novels, Classics
ratings_count: 4069703
places: Derbishire and Hertfordshire, England, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, England, Hertfordshire, England
publisher: Signet Classics