Pride and Prejudice

About this book

Mrs Bennet has five unmarried daughters and one ambition. When a rich young bachelor rents the grand house nearby — bringing his haughty friend Mr Darcy — the quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet decides within an evening what she thinks of Darcy. Over the following months she discovers how much a first impression can hide.

Two centuries on, the novel is still startlingly funny: a portrait of money, marriage and reputation in a small society, told in some of the sharpest dialogue in English fiction.

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Credits & licence

Ebook edition: Standard Ebooks, released into the public domain (CC0 1.0). Produced for Standard Ebooks by Alex Cabal and Alina Pyzowski, based on a transcription from Project Gutenberg and digital scans from the HathiTrust Digital Library. Cover: Standard Ebooks design adapted from “A Wet Sunday Morning”, a painting completed in 1896 by Edmund Blair Leighton (public domain). Text follows R. W. Chapman’s 1923 edition. EPUB and web reader edition packaged by Paper Lane Books from the Standard Ebooks source files. Standard Ebooks is not affiliated with Paper Lane Books and does not endorse this shop.