num_pages: 336
description: Few readers have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr Darcy - who is quite the most handsome and eligible bachelor in the whole of English literature - is a misjudgement only matched by Darcy's arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to truer feelings in a comedy profoundly concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved. Vivien Jones, in her new introduction to this Penguin Classics edition, shows how their romance is inseparable from the important and social political debates of Austen's time, and describes Pride and Prejudice as 'One of the most perfect, most pleasurable and most subtle - and therefore, perhaps, most dangerously persuasive - of romantic love stories.'--back cover
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: 4067375
places: England, Derbyshire, England, Derbishire and Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Hertfordshire, England
publisher: Penguin