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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Why must _she_ be scampering about the country, because her sister had a cold? Her hair so untidy, so blowzy!” “Yes, and her petticoat; I hope you saw her petticoat, six…
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Bennet, as the carriage drove up to the door; her husband looked impenetrably grave; her daughters, alarmed, anxious, uneasy. Lydia’s voice was heard in the vestibule; t…
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With an air of indifference, he soon afterwards added, “How long did you say that he was at Rosings?” “Nearly three weeks.” “And you saw him frequently?” “Yes, almost ev…
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My good opinion once lost is lost for ever.” “_That_ is a failing, indeed!” cried Elizabeth. You are safe from me.” “There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency…
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Did you see it?” Bingley replied that he did, and made his congratulations. “It is a delightful thing, to be sure, to have a daughter well married,” continued her mother…
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Collins’s offer was now nearly at an end, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally from some peevish a…
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These were the contents:-- /* NIND “My dear Harriet, */ “You will laugh when you know where I am gone, and I cannot help laughing myself at your surprise to-morrow morni…
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I take up my pen again to do, what I have just told you I would not; but circumstances are such, that I cannot help earnestly begging you all to come here as soon as pos…
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His pride, in that direction, may be of service, if not to himself, to many others, for it must deter him from such foul misconduct as I have suffered by. I only fear th…
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I had hoped that our sentiments coincided in every particular, but I must so far differ from you as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly foolish.” “My dear Mr.…
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His own father did not long survive mine; and within half a year from these events Mr. Wickham wrote to inform me that, having finally resolved against taking orders, he…
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Miss Lucas is married and settled: and one of my own daughters. I suppose you have heard of it; indeed, you must have seen it in the papers. It was in the ‘Times’ and th…