Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen. It follows Elizabeth Bennet as she learns about the consequences of hasty judgments and comes to value the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. Her father, Mr Bennet, owns the Longbourn estate in Hertfordshire, but it can only be inherited in the male line. His five daughters need at least one good marriage to support the others. Mr Bingley rents Netherfield, and Mr Darcy declines to dance with Elizabeth Bennet, though he later appreciates her wit and frankness.

Why You Should Read?

• Follow Elizabeth Bennet as she learns how hasty judgments affect her view of superficial and actual goodness.
• Meet Mr Darcy, who declines to dance with Elizabeth Bennet but secretly appreciates her wit and frankness.
• Understand why the Bennet family needs at least one daughter to marry well to support the others.
• Enjoy a Deluxe Hardcover Edition of a story full of wit, warmth, and quiet drama.

About the Author

Jane Austen was an English writer best known for six novels that comment on the English gentry near the close of the eighteenth century. Her stories often examine how women depended on marriage for social position and money. She wrote major novels before she was 22, though her first publication came when she was 35. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma appeared anonymously and had only moderate success in her lifetime. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published after her 1817 death; Sanditon remained unfinished. Since her death, her novels have seldom been unavailable.