Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Elizabeth Bennet is the bright, self-assured, and irreverent daughter of a country gentleman of modest means. Fitzwilliam Darcy is the snobbish, disapproving, and very proper nephew of a wealthy landowner. What happens when these two opposites attract? Austen's novel recounts the comic misadventures of two whose stubborn pride and foolish prejudices threaten to keep them forever apart.

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