Pride and Prejudice
A brilliantly observant novel of love, judgment, class, and emotional growth set within the social rituals of courtship and family life.
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The book
Pride and Prejudice centers on Elizabeth Bennet, whose intelligence, wit, and independence shape one of literature’s most memorable emotional journeys. Through her encounters with the proud and reserved Mr. Darcy, the novel explores the errors people make when first impressions harden into certainty. Around their relationship, Jane Austen builds a rich social world of family pressures, economic anxieties, marriage expectations, and subtle hierarchies of class and behavior. The novel’s brilliance lies in how it joins romantic tension with moral development: characters must learn to see others more clearly, but also to understand their own vanity, prejudice, and vulnerability.
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Significance
Jane Austen’s novel remains one of the essential achievements of English fiction. It refines the novel of manners into something psychologically sharp, socially precise, and emotionally enduring. Its dialogue, irony, and character construction have shaped the literary imagination for generations. Pride and Prejudice endures because it is both deeply entertaining and quietly profound, showing how love becomes meaningful only when pride gives way to self-knowledge and prejudice gives way to understanding.
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Fragments from this book
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They were within twenty yards of each other; and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of eac…
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But here she did injustice to the fire and independence of his character; for it led him to escape out of Longbourn House the next morning with admirable slyness, and ha…
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Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.” “You are uniformly charming!” cried h…
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Bennet, to whose apartment they all repaired, after a few minutes’ conversation together, received them exactly as might be expected; with tears and lamentations of regr…
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Bennet was glad to take his guest into the drawing-room again, and when tea was over, glad to invite him [Illustration: “Protested that he never read novels” H.T Feb 94 …
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Darcy bequeathed me the next presentation of the best living in his gift. He meant to provide for me amply, and thought he had done it; but when the living fell, it was …
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Bennet on having so fine a family of daughters, said he had heard much of their beauty, but that, in this instance, fame had fallen short of the truth; and added, that h…
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With a glance she saw that he had lost none of his recent civility; and, to imitate his politeness, she began as they met to admire the beauty of the place; but she had …
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“If we make haste,” said Lydia, as they walked along, “perhaps we may see something of Captain Carter, before he goes.” In Meryton they parted: the two youngest repaired…
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No motive can excuse the unjust and ungenerous part you acted _there_. You dare not, you cannot deny that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing …
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She was therefore obliged to seek another branch of the subject, and related, with much bitterness of spirit, and some exaggeration, the shocking rudeness of Mr. “But I …
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He had followed them purposely to town, he had taken on himself all the trouble and mortification attendant on such a research; in which supplication had been necessary …