Spirited Elizabeth Bennet is one of a family of five daughters; with no male heir, the Bennet
estate must someday pass to their priggish cousin William Collins. Therefore the girls must marry well—and the arrogant bachelor Mr. Darcy is Elizabeth's elusive match. An entertaining portrait of matrimonial rites and rivalries, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's masterwork, timeless in its hilarity and its honesty "A lady's imagination," notes Darcy, “is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” With its intrigue, romance, and wit, Pride and Prejudice will immediately show readers why Austen herself called the book“my own darling child.”
estate must someday pass to their priggish cousin William Collins. Therefore the girls must marry well—and the arrogant bachelor Mr. Darcy is Elizabeth's elusive match. An entertaining portrait of matrimonial rites and rivalries, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's masterwork, timeless in its hilarity and its honesty "A lady's imagination," notes Darcy, “is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” With its intrigue, romance, and wit, Pride and Prejudice will immediately show readers why Austen herself called the book“my own darling child.”