Easy To Read - Pride and Prejudice

Austen Jane

• 16 april 2019
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Title: Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen

A classic romantic novel written by Jane Austen In 1813; Pride and Prejudice tells of love and gender expecations in turn of the 19th century Britain. With over 20 million copies sold to date the tale of Elizabeth Bennett and her sisters has proved that love and family relationships are universal themes transcending time.
Mr. Bennet of the Longbourn estate has five daughters, but his property is inalienable intact entailed by a fee tail male, meaning that none of the girls can inherit it. His wife has no fortune, so it is imperative that at least one of the girls marry well to support the others upon his death. 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 importance of marrying for love, not simply for money, despite the social pressures to make a good (i.e. wealthy) match.