- Published: 1 November 2000
- ISBN: 9780679641124
- Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen's classic romance novel, soon to be a major Netflix series adapted by Dolly Alderton.
Sparkling with wit and timeless observations, Jane Austen’s iconic comedy of manners remains one of the most popular novels of all time—soon to be a Netflix miniseries starring Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden, Olivia Colman, and Rufus Sewell
Introduction by Anna Quindlen
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
So begins Pride and Prejudice, which still dazzles readers with 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 “most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author’s works,” and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as “irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.”
Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide and commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf
- Published: 1 November 2000
- ISBN: 9780679641124
- Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
Other books in the series
About the author
Related titles
Discover more
We’re happy to share that an impressive twenty-five Penguin Random House titles made the list this year.
It’s official: the internet has dubbed Conrad Fisher a ‘black cat boyfriend’. Here are a few other black cat book boyfriends to keep you swooning.
Penguin Random House is proud to have twenty-four titles on the list this year.
Some of the biggest burns from classic literature.
As Austen fans, we often imagine ourselves living between the pages of our favourite stories. With the help of this quiz, you can find out which book you'd be transported to.
These female characters are brave, stand up for their beliefs and aren't afraid to break the status quo.