description: Details Synopsis It's hard to believe that Jane Austen wrote the sophisticated and acerbic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE when she was only 21 years old, in 1797. Originally entitled FIRST IMPRESSIONS, the novel was rejected, revised, retitled, and finally published--anonymously--in 1813, only four years before Austen's untimely death. In PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Austen calls on her sharp observations of vanity, venality, pomposity, and downright nuttiness in a story about a respectable but far from wealthy family full of daughters--girls who desperately need to find husbands if they are to have any kind of economic security. The eldest of the Bennett family, Elizabeth, is a bright, opinionated, and complacent young woman whose reaction to an offer of marriage from her wealthy but impossibly arrogant suitor, Fitzwilliam Darcy, is revulsion. But in the course of the story both Elizabeth and Darcy learn important lessons about their own folly and blindness, and about the dangers of superficial judgem
language: English
title: Pride & Prejudice
titlecomplete: Pride & Prejudice
characters: Lydia Bennet, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Georgiana Darcy, Mr. William Collins, Charlotte Lucas, Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Jane Bennet, Mary Bennet, Kitty Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Caroline Bingley, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Georgiana Da, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Kitty Bennet, Mrs. Gardiner, Mrs. Bennet, Jane Bennet, Charles Bingley, George Wickham, Mr. Gardiner, Mr. Bennet, Caroline Bingley, Mary Bennet
genres: Fiction, Classics, Historical Romance, Historical, Adult, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Novels, Audiobook
ratings_count: 4067441
places: Derbishire and Hertfordshire, England, England, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Derbyshire, England
publisher: Blackstone Pub