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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

One of the BBC’s ’100 Novels That Shaped Our World’

’The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist’ Independent

With its ’light and bright and sparkling’ dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most perennially popular novel. The love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, who misjudge, then challenge and change each other, is also a novel about the search for happiness and self- knowledge in a world of strict social rules, where a woman must marry well to survive.
 

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Writer

Jane Austen

Language

English

ISBN

9780486284736

Number of pages

272

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Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
The pride of any mother is to give birth to a responsible and successful child.