Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen covers the lives of the Bennet sisters on their quests to find marriageable men and secure their futures.  Plagued by socially inept parents, Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, a man worth thousands of pounds a year!  Their first meeting, however, leads to a mutual open dislike; Elizabeth believes Mr Darcy arrogant and prideful, a prejudice that sees her risking losing the most eligible bachelor to grace her rural home.

 

Anything but boring and supported by a cast of richly-developed secondary characters Pride and Prejudice delightfully plunges the modern reader into the days of empire-style dresses and strict social constraints. It allows one to fully experience the lives and times of the Bennets as they trip and tumble their ways to love.  If you don't begin speaking -- or at least thinking -- as one would in 19th Century England by chapter five, then I shall eat my copy.

 

Highly reccommended, though you may need to return to it before it can be read through.

 

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