Jane Austen
ASIN: B00NDKHC9G
Publisher: Bibliophile
Pages: 294
“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 Pride and Prejudice the greatest romance novel of all time. Jane Austen’s set-up is ingenious: Mrs. Bennet has but one aim in life: to find a good match for each of her five daughters. Mr. Bennet, a mild and indolent man given to witty cynicisms, refuses to take this vulgar project seriously; he ridicules his wife instead of giving her support in her schemes. One of the daughters, Elizabeth, becomes prejudiced against her future suitor, Darcy, because of his arrogance and his uncalled-for interference with his friend Bingley’s courtship of her sister Jane. In interfering with Jane and Bingley, Darcy is influence by Mrs. Bennet’s undisguised husband-hunt and her impropriety in general; he mistakenly believes that Jane is only seeking an advantageous match and ...