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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I would advise you, before you determine on it, to consult the wishes of the present party; I am much mistaken if there are not some among us to whom a ball would be rat…
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“They have both,” said she, “been deceived, I dare say, in some way or other, of which we can form no idea. Interested people have perhaps misrepresented each to the oth…
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Collins was gratified; and with a more smiling solemnity replied,-- “It gives me the greatest pleasure to hear that you have passed your time not disagreeably. We have c…
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Darcy should hear the first raptures of her joy, than the first vehemence of her disapprobation. Darcy rise also and follow him, and her agitation on seeing it was extre…
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Darcy found, on further inquiry, that your father was still with him, but would quit town the next morning. He did not judge your father to be a person whom he could so …
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“I cannot bear to think that they should have all this estate. If it was not for the entail, I should not mind it.” “What should not you mind?” “I should not mind anythi…
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Elizabeth, with nothing offensive, nothing_ viraginous, _nothing of the “New Woman” about her, has by nature what the best modern (not “new”) women have by education and…
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He arranges the business just as he pleases.” “And if not able to please himself in the arrangement, he has at least great pleasure in the power of choice. I do not know…
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Family pride, and _filial_ pride, for he is very proud of what his father was, have done this. Not to appear to disgrace his family, to degenerate from the popular quali…
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I will answer for it, he never cared three straws about her. Who _could_ about such a nasty little freckled thing?” Elizabeth was shocked to think that, however incapabl…
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They walked towards the Lucases’, because Kitty wished to call upon Maria; and as Elizabeth saw no occasion for making it a general concern, when Kitty left them she wen…
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“I am trying to make it out.” “And what is your success?” She shook her head. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.” “I can readily believe,” a…