Rank 24 of 100
Pride and Prejudice
Synopsis
Elizabeth Bennet has four sisters, a mother bent on marrying them off, and a sharp eye for other people’s vanity — including her own, eventually. Austen’s comedy of manners makes a rich, rude man and a lively, prejudiced woman talk their way into knowing each other.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1813
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Romance, Literary
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 19th century
- Movement
- Regency
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 432 pages
- Reported copies
- At least 20 million copies, and never really out of print
- Kind
- Fiction