Pride and Prejudice: Original and Unabridged - Paperback

by Jane Austen (Author)

This edition contains the original and unabridged text of this Jane Austen classic. Ideal for students, Janeites and new readers alike.

Pride and Prejudice follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

Though the story is set at the turn of the 19th century, it retains a fascination for modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of