PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

u003cpu003eu003cbu003eNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's u003ciu003eThe Great American Readu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e No novel in English has given more pleasure than u003ciu003ePride and Prejudice.u003c/iu003e Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it--and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eWe are captivated not only by the novel's romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit in its pages. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by Jane Austen's wit and feeling but by her subtle observation of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to each other and ourselves.u003c/pu003e