Pride and Prejudice

Published in 1813

Categories: Classics for Adults

Mr. Darcy standing in a drawing room, declaring his love to Elizabeth, who sits by a writing desk
Illustration: C. E. Brock (1895)

Mrs. Bennet has five unmarried daughters and one aim in life: to see them married. When a rich young bachelor, Mr. Bingley, takes the great house nearby, she is delighted. His proud friend Mr. Darcy is another matter: at the first ball he refuses to dance with the second daughter, Elizabeth, and she hears him say why. Jane Austen's 1813 novel of first impressions, and of the two people who get each other most wrong.

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