{"product_id":"pride-and-prejudice-paperback-3","title":"Pride and Prejudice - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Read\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice, \u003c\/i\u003eJane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features 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.\"\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor over 150 years, \"Pride And Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her \"own darling child.\" \"Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of these -- the haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy -- irks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. She annoys him. Which is how we know they must one day marry. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy is a splendid rendition of civilized sparring. As the characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, Jane Austen's radiantly caustic wit and keen observation sparkle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101200224479,"sku":"9780553213102","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8wxHVYeAtM9780553213102.webp?v=1781068456","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/pride-and-prejudice-paperback-3","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}