![]() ![]() It is frequently included on “Best Books” lists and has been adapted for film, television and the theatre as well as served as the inspiration for numerous literary adaptations including sequels and spin-offs. Pride and Prejudice has enjoyed lasting popularity in the 200 years since its first publication, and continues to be widely read and appreciated by casual readers and literary scholars alike. ![]() The story follows the young and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet and her four unmarried sisters as she navigates issues of wealth, class, and morality in a society that prizes marriage above all other goals for any respectable young woman. ![]() Pride and Prejudice was first published in 1813, the third-and arguably most popular-of her six major novels. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” So begins one of the most beloved novels of all time written by an equally beloved author: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. ![]()
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