num_pages: 392
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 Bennet, 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: George Wickham, Charles Bingley, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Jane Bennet, Mary Bennet, Kitty Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Caroline Bingley, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Georgiana Da, Charlotte Lucas, Caroline Bingley, Lydia Bennet, Kitty Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Jane Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Georgiana Darcy, Mrs. Gardiner, Mr. Bennet, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. William Collins, Mary Bennet, Mr. Gardiner, Elizabeth Bennet
genres: Classics, Historical, Adult, Historical Romance, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Audiobook, Fiction
ratings_count: 4066785
places: England, Derbyshire, England, Derbishire and Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Hertfordshire, England
publisher: Barnes & Noble