TY - BOOK AU - Austen,Jane AU - Brock,Charles E. AU - Thomson,Hugh TI - Pride and prejudice / SN - 9781435173057 AV - PR 4034 A933p 2023 PY - 2023/// CY - New York : PB - Fall River Press KW - Novela inglesa N1 - "The text for this edition of Pride and Prejudice is based on the 1813 first edition"--Verso N2 - Genteel Elizabeth Bennet finds the wealthy Fitzwilliam Darcy arrogant and obnoxious. Darcy, by all outward appearances, finds Elizabeth beneath his personal consideration. Although Elizabeth does her best to avoid associating with Darcy, fate and the entanglements of her family and friends draw the pair ineluctably into a fraught romantic pas de deux. First published in 1813, Austen's novel offers a sly satirical look at a time when marrying well was a woman's only way to secure a comfortable future. It is the forerunner for all romantic comedies written in its wake ER -