One of P. D. James' favourite books.
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.
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Jane Austen's timeless romance consistently appears on top of "e;most loved books"e; among literary scholars and the reading public, and has been adapted into a 2005 movie starring Keira Knightley. "e;Like all masterpieces of literature, it cannot be digested in one reading."e;Austen's level of realism in portraying her three-dimensional characters is unparalleled in English literature."e;Not even Dickens, who used to weep over the deaths of his characters, was more intimate with the creations of his brain than the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' was with hers."e;Pride and Prejudice follows Elizabeth Bennet, whose character develops through repercussions of hasty judgements, and who comes to appreciate the difference between superficial and actual goodness.It advocates marriage for love and not for wealth or social status, in spite of communal and familial pressure."e;Jane Austen's characters are human beings in flesh and blood."e;"e;A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."e;"e;I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."e;~Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice was written by Jane Austen and published by Left Of Brain Onboarding Pty Ltd
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