Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy of the writing lies in the depiction of manners, education, marriage, and money in the British Regency. Mr. Bennet of the Longbourn estate has five daughters, but his property is entailed, meaning that none of the girls can inherit it. His wife has no fortune, so it is imperative that at least one of the girls marry well in order to support the others on his death. Jane Austen's opening line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" is a sentence filled with irony and playfulness.

Media	Bøker Pocketbok (Bok med mykt omslag og limt rygg)
Utgitt	23. november 2017
ISBN13	9781981106646
Utgivere	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Antall sider	488
Mål	152 × 229 × 25 mm · 644 g
Språk	Engelsk