Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen(1813)
Novelc. 400 pages
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
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by Jane Austen(1813)
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Jane Austen(1813)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Austen opens with irony and never stops. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy misunderstand each other for three hundred pages, and the pleasure is in watching their pride and their prejudice dissolve. Austen wrote this in her twenties, revised it a decade later, and published it to immediate success. The sentences are perfectly balanced, the comedy precise, the romance earned through intelligence. Every romantic comedy since is in conversation with this one. The wit has not faded. The marriage plot has not been surpassed.