About this book

In a small English country town, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters and very little money to leave them. When two wealthy young men, the easy-tempered Mr. Bingley and the proud Mr. Darcy, rent a great house in the neighborhood, Mrs. Bennet sees a future. Her second daughter, the sharp and witty Elizabeth, sees only a roomful of ridiculous people. From a first encounter at a country ball that goes wrong, through misunderstood proposals, family scandals, and a slow, surprising visit to a great estate called Pemberley, Elizabeth and Darcy will spend hundreds of pages learning that the worst thing you can trust, in a world full of polite manners, is your own first impression. Jane Austen's most beloved novel, retold in five chapters that keep her wit, her irony, and her quietly radical idea that two reasonable people can change their minds and still be themselves at the end of the road.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property…