Jane Austen is one of the greatest writers in English, and pride and prejudice is her great masterpiece. A sharp and witty comedy of manners set in the early 19th Century English society, a world in which men held virtually all the power and women were required to negotiate mine-fields of social status, respectability, wealth, love, and sex in order to marry both to their own liking and to the advantage of their family. Pride and Prejudice is simply one of the funniest novels ever written, peopled with memorable characters brought vividly to life as they both succeed and fail at the game of life according to the manners of their era.
The book revolves around the story of the Bennetts, a family of daughters whose father's estate is entailed to a distant relative, for upon Mr. Bennett's death they will loose home, land, income, everything. But are the Bennett daughters up to playing a winning hand in this high-stakes matrimonial game without forfeiting their own personal integrity?
Other books by Jane Austen are:
* Sence and Sensibility
* Emma
* Mansfield Park
* Persuasion
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