Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen’s novel was first published in 1813. It follows the Bennet sisters through courtship and marriage, with Elizabeth Bennet’s judgments of Fitzwilliam Darcy at its centre.
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The opening
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day, “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?”
Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.
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Its depictions of social rank, women’s dependence on marriage and family expectations are kept as the author wrote them.