Pride and Prejudice (AmazonClassics Edition)
When a wealthy bachelor arrives in the neighbourhood, the Bennet household is thrown into a flutter of matrimonial scheming. Five daughters, an anxious mother, and suddenly the stakes couldn't feel higher. Yet it's not the bachelor himself who proves most interesting. It's his aloof, infuriating companion, Mr. Darcy, who quietly loses his heart to the one woman least inclined to return the favour. Elizabeth Bennet is sharp, funny, and bracingly self-possessed for a woman of her era. She's heard the rumours about Darcy, and she's not in a forgiving mood. What follows is a slow, beautifully observed collision between two stubborn people, set against a society where money, gossip, and a good marriage were practically matters of survival. Austen wrote this more than two hundred years ago, and it still crackles. The wit holds up. The social observations remain uncomfortably recognisable. The romantic tension is genuinely earned rather than simply declared. This AmazonClassics edition has been lightly revised from earlier publications, making it a fine choice whether you're coming to the novel fresh or returning to it after years away. It's the kind of story that rewards both first-time readers and those who already know how it ends, because the pleasure is in the journey, not the destination.
- Author: Jane Austen
- Publisher: AmazonClassics
- Genre: Classic Literature
- ISBN: 978-1542097482
- Pages: 277 pages