# Pride and Prejudice

> Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is the enduring classic of wit, courtship, social pressure, misjudgment, and the gradual correction of first impressions.

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## About
Jane Austen's masterpiece of wit, courtship, and the correction of first impressionsPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen remains one of the defining novels in English literature because it combines emotional precision, comic intelligence, and social observation with extraordinary readability. Through the story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, Austen turns drawing-room conversation, family pressure, class anxiety, and romantic misunderstanding into a novel of lasting charm and unusual structural elegance. The book is beloved for its wit, but its deeper power lies in how carefully it studies judgment: how people misread one another, how vanity distorts perception, and how self-knowledge arrives slowly, often through embarrassment and surprise.What keeps the novel fresh is the balance it strikes between pleasure and insight. It is a love story, but also a comedy of manners, a portrait of family life, and a sharp study of money, status, and female vulnerability in a world where marriage carries real economic consequence. Austen's prose is nimble, exact, and unsentimental, and the short chapter structure gives the novel unusual momentum even for first-time readers. This DotBooks edition is especially suited to readers who want a clean digital reading copy of a foundational classic that rewards both casual reading and close rereading.Further contextFor background on the novel and its publication history, see Wikipedia: Pride and Prejudice.

## Specifications
- author: Jane Austen
- publisher: DotBooks
- imprint: DotBooks
- language: en
- binding: Perfect Bound
- pages: 433
- format: paperback
- gutenberg_id: 1342
- oclc: 32831921
- openlibrary: OL66554W
- published_year: 1813