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Pride and Prejudice
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'''''Pride and Prejudice''''' is a romance novel by [[Jane Austen]], first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, [[Elizabeth Bennet]], who learns the error of making hasty judgements and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy of the writing lies in the depiction of [[manners]], [[education]], and [[marriage]] and [[money]] in the [[Regency era|British Regency]].

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Mr Bennet of the Longbourn estate has five daughters, but his property is entailed, meaning that none of the girls can inherit it. Since his wife had no fortune, it is imperative that one of the girls marries well in order to support the others on his death. However, Jane Austen's opening line, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" is a sentence filled with irony and playfulness. The novel revolves around the necessity (contracted; show full)
* [http://www.bl.uk/people/jane-austen Digital resources relating to Jane Austen] from the British Library's Discovering Literature website
* {{gutenberg|no=42671|name=Pride and Prejudice (Chapman edition)}}
* [http://epublib.info/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen Pride and Prejudice] ePub/Mobi version
* [http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pridprej.html#toc Annotated HTML hypertext of ''Pride and Prejudice'']
* {{librivox book | title=Pride and Prejudice | author=Jane Austen}}