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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He believed him to be imprudent and extravagant; and since this sad affair has taken place, it is said that he left Meryton greatly in debt: but I hope this may be false…
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“Very well--and this offer of marriage you have refused?” “I have, sir.” “Very well.
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my father’s active superintendence; and when, immediately before my father’s death, Mr.
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If you mention my name at the Bell, you will be attended to.” Lady Catherine had many other questions to ask respecting their journey; and as she did not answer them all…
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Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the arguments with which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the application was ill-judged…
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I knew enough of your disposition to be certain, that had you been absolutely, irrevocably decided against me, you would have acknowledged it to Lady Catherine frankly a…
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“No; but it must be done soon.” Most earnestly did she then entreat him to lose no more time before he wrote. my dear father,” she cried, “come back and write immediatel…
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and yet how many things have happened!” “A great many indeed,” said her companion, with a sigh. “We have dined nine times at Rosings, besides drinking tea there twice! H…
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He repeated the question, with some surprise at her silence. “Oh,” said she, “I heard you before; but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted …
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Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.” “Dear Lizzy!” “Oh, you are a great deal too apt, you know…
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You are determined to ruin him in the opinion of all his friends, and make him the contempt of the world.” “Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude,” replied Elizabeth, …
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Observing his second daughter employed in trimming a hat, he suddenly addressed her with,-- “I hope Mr. Bingley will like it, Lizzy.” “We are not in a way to know _what_…