Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is a reissue published by Random House Publishing Group on December 1, 1983. This edition spans 352 pages and is presented in English. The novel opens with the famous line about the expectations surrounding wealthy single men and unfolds as a witty comedy of manners, focusing on the interactions between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet amidst the social intricacies of the eighteenth century.
Readers will find a rich exploration of themes such as romance and societal expectations within this classic work. The narrative delves into the spirited courtship between its main characters, highlighting their misunderstandings and eventual growth. As a significant piece of Victorian literature, Pride and Prejudice remains a cornerstone of literary study, offering insights into the dynamics of class and gender during its time.
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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s witty comedy of manners—one of the most popular novels of all time—that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the “most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author’s works,” and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as “irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.”
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