Pride and Prejudice
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Hertfordshire
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781573353861
Copyright date: 1992
Description: Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim — that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by the witty cynicisms of her indolent husband. One of her daughters, Elizabeth, becomes prejudiced against her future suitor Darcy, because of his arrogance and uncalled-for interference with his friend Bingley's courtship of her sister Jane. In spite of this, Darcy falls in love with Elizabeth (a blow to his pride) proposes, but is rejected. But his sensitive assistance when Lydia Bennet elopes, dissolves Elizabeth's prejudice, and the two are reconciled. The vivid delineations of provincial middle-class attitudes, moral firmness, and the author's sense of comic and satirical ridicule make Pride and Prejudice one of the enduring classics of the English language.