Pride and Prejudice

Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of
the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this
brilliant work “her own darling child” and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth
Bennet, “as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print.” The romantic
clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a
splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen’s radiant wit
sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and
intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency
England. Among the writers who have approached nearest to the manner of the
great master, we have no hesitation in placing Jane Austen. —Thomas Macaulay
‘Pride and Prejudice’ is the best novel in the language. —Anthony Trollope I
used to think that men did everything better than women, but that was before I
read Jane Austen. I don’t think any man ever wrote better than Jane Austen.
—Rex Stout Elizabeth Bennet has but to speak, and I am at her knees. —Robert
Louis Stevenson Read again, and for the third time at least, Miss Austen’s
very finely written novel of ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ That young lady has a
talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary
life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. —Sir Walter Scott