Introduction by Anna Quindlen Commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf Nominated as one of Americaās best-loved novels by PBSās The Great American Read
āIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.ā So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austenās witty comedy of mannersāone of the most popular novels of all timeāthat features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the āmost perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its authorās works,ā and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as āirresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.ā
Introduction by Anna Quindlen Commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf Nominated as one of Americaās best-loved novels by PBSās The Great American Read
āIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.ā So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austenās witty comedy of mannersāone of the most popular novels of all timeāthat features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the āmost perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its authorās works,ā and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as āirresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.ā