Pride & Prejudice

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy begin on opposite sides of a divide built from pride, first impressions and the rigid expectations of early 19th-century society. Misunderstandings and social pressures keep pulling them apart even as something harder to ignore draws them together. Jane Austen's novel follows their slow, often prickly path toward understanding, where getting past assumptions turns out to matter as much as falling in love.