Pride and Prejudice
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 1813 January 28
Format: US Trade Paper
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781495386817
Description: The news that a wealthy young gentleman named Charles Bingley has rented the manor of Netherfield Park causes a great stir in the nearby village of Longbourn, especially in the Bennet household. The Bennets have five unmarried daughters-from oldest to youngest, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia-and Mrs. Bennet is desperate to see them all married. After Mr. Bennet pays a social visit to Mr. Bingley, the Bennets attend a ball at which Mr. Bingley is present. He is taken with Jane and spends much of the evening dancing with her. His close friend, Mr. Darcy, is less pleased with the evening and haughtily refuses to dance with Elizabeth, which makes everyone view him as arrogant and obnoxious.

Jane Austen's most popular book actually offers a witty, insightful, and surprisingly realistic look at what marriage is and ought to be - even some two hundred years after its publication.

Source: back cover