Apple Books Classics

Pride and Prejudice

This might be the first rom-com ever written. It’s sharp, witty, and an absolute joy.

    • 4.5 • 73 Ratings

Publisher Description

An Apple Books Classic edition.

Jane Austen’s beloved classic opens with this witty and very memorable line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” With all the twists and turns of a soap opera, Pride and Prejudice chronicles the drama that ensues when the wealthy bachelor Mr. Darcy moves close to the Bennet family home in the English countryside. The news of his arrival sends the socially ambitious Mrs. Bennet-whose main concern is finding suitable matches for her five daughters-into overdrive.

The book’s main character, the high-spirited Elizabeth Bennet, is a strikingly modern heroine: a woman who refuses to lower her expectations or transform herself to suit society’s norms. Austen’s novel achieves a remarkable balance, serving up barbed criticism of the obsession with money, status, and matrimony even as it draws us into a swoon-worthy love story. At its heart, Pride and Prejudice is a romantic comedy, and a darned great one at that. It’s so much fun to turn the pages and wonder about Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy: Will they or won’t they overcome their excessive pride and initial prejudices to make a happily-ever-after connection?

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1813
28 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
490
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
479
KB

Customer Reviews

Paco Gotor ,

Timeless emotions

The depth, sagacity and colourful description of all the characters in Austen's universe renders them the so life-like appearance, that one could take tea with them as long acquaintances. The walls of Pemberley cast indeed a long shadow

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