<b>With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature.<br /><br />Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)</b><br />One of the most universally loved and admired English novels,&nbsp;<i>Pride and Prejudice</i>&nbsp;was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775&ndash;1817) transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life that is now regarded as one of the principal treasures of English language.<br />In a remote Hertfordshire village, far off the good coach roads of George III&#39;s England, a country squire of no great means must marry off his five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise are his headstrong second daughter Elizabeth Bennet and her aristocratic suitor Fitzwilliam Darcy &mdash; two lovers whose pride must be humbled and prejudices dissolved before the novel can come to its splendid conclusion.