num_pages: 327
description: 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' Thus memorably begins Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, one of the world's most popular novels. Pride and Prejudice--Austen's own 'darling child'--tells the story of fiercely independent Elizabeth Bennett, one of five sisters who must marry rich, as she confounds the arrogant, wealthy Mr. Darcy. What ensues is one of the most delightful and engrossingly readable courtships known to literature, written by a precocious Austen when she was just twenty-one years old.Humorous and profound, and filled with highly entertaining dialogue, this witty comedy of manners dips and turns through drawing-rooms and plots to reach an immensely satisfying finale. In the words of Eudora Welty, Pride and Prejudice is as 'irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.'
language: English
title: Pride and Prejudice
titlecomplete: Pride and Prejudice
characters: Mrs. Gardiner, George Wickham, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Jane Bennet, Kitty Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet, Charles Bingley, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Jane Bennet, Mary Bennet, Kitty Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Caroline Bingley, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Georgiana Da, Georgiana Darcy, Charlotte Lucas, Mr. William Collins, Lydia Bennet, Caroline Bingley, Mary Bennet, Mr. Gardiner, Mrs. Bennet, Mr. Bennet
genres: Historical, Literature, Audiobook, Classics, Novels, Adult, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 4066920
places: Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, England, Derbishire and Hertfordshire, England, Derbyshire, England
publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons LTD