Pride and Prejudice
Penguin Classics · first published 1813 · 448 pages
A sharp-witted second daughter and a proud, wealthy man misjudge each other across a season of country balls and visits.
The sentences are quick and dry, and most of the comedy lives in what people say to each other in drawing rooms.
For a night when conversation feels like sport.
About this book
Elizabeth Bennet is one of five daughters in a family whose house will pass to a cousin, so marriage is a practical question as much as a romantic one. When she meets Mr. Darcy at a local dance, his pride and her quick judgment set them at odds. The novel follows letters, visits and second impressions as both of them discover how little they had really seen. What lingers is the pleasure of watching a mind change its view.