Spirited Elizabeth Bennet is one of a family of five daughters, and with no male heir, the Bennet
estate must someday pass to their priggish cousin William Collins. Therefore, the girls must marry
well¿and thus is launched the story of Elizabeth and the arrogant bachelor Mr. Darcy, in a novel
renowned as the epitome of romance and wit. Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen¿s masterwork, an
entertaining portrait of matrimonial rites and rivalries, timeless in its hilarity and its honesty