Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her “own darling child.” Published anonymously in 1813, Pride and Prejudice is a superb comedy of manners. In recounting the courtship of the witty, independent Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy — the handsome bachelor whose arrogant pride Elizabeth regards as a fatal flaw — Austen illuminates the prejudices of society as a whole with subtle humor. For almost two centuries, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in English.
Pride and Prejudice is introduced by H.M. Daleski, formerly President of the International Dickens Society and Chairman of the Department of English at the Hebrew University. He is the author of Dickens and the Art of Analogy, The Divided Heroine, Unities: Studies in the English Novel, and other books.
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