Pride and Prejudice

Nominated as one of AmericaΓÇÖs best-loved novels by PBSΓÇÖs The Great American Read ΓÇ£It is a truth universally acknowledged,that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.ΓÇ¥ So begins Pride and PrejudiceJane AustenΓÇÖs witty comedy of mannersΓÇöone of the most popular novels of all timeΓÇöthat features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the ΓÇ£most perfectthe most characteristicthe most eminently quintessential of its authorΓÇÖs worksΓÇ¥ and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as ΓÇ£irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.ΓÇ¥