Pride and PrejudiceIntroduction by Anna Quindlen Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s witty comedy of manners—one of the most popular novels of all time—that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the “most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author’s works,” and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as “irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.” |
Contents
Chapter 32 | |
Chapter 33 | |
Chapter 34 | |
Chapter 35 | |
Chapter 36 | |
Chapter 37 | |
Chapter 38 | |
Chapter 39 | |
Chapter 8 | |
Chapter 9 | |
Chapter 10 | |
Chapter 11 | |
Chapter 12 | |
Chapter 13 | |
Chapter 14 | |
Chapter 15 | |
Chapter 16 | |
Chapter 17 | |
Chapter 18 | |
Chapter 19 | |
Chapter 20 | |
Chapter 21 | |
Chapter 22 | |
Chapter 23 | |
Chapter 24 | |
Chapter 25 | |
Chapter 26 | |
Chapter 27 | |
Chapter 28 | |
Chapter 29 | |
Chapter 30 | |
Chapter 31 | |
Chapter 40 | |
Chapter 41 | |
Chapter 42 | |
Chapter 43 | |
Chapter 44 | |
Chapter 45 | |
Chapter 46 | |
Chapter 47 | |
Chapter 48 | |
Chapter 49 | |
Chapter 50 | |
Chapter 51 | |
Chapter 52 | |
Chapter 53 | |
Chapter 54 | |
Chapter 55 | |
Chapter 56 | |
Chapter 57 | |
Chapter 58 | |
Chapter 59 | |
Chapter 60 | |
Chapter 61 | |
About the Author | |
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