Used. Paperback. Jane Austen’s 1813 classic brilliantly proves that when it comes to matrimony and manners, first impressions are rarely the final word. With an estate entail threatening their future, Mrs. Bennet’s frantic mission to marry off her five daughters sets a deliciously dramatic stage for sharp tongues and social chess. Enter Elizabeth Bennet, a fiercely witty protagonist whose brisk sparring with a certain famously proud gentleman makes for some of the finest verbal fencing in English literature. It is a sparkling, sharp-eyed satire of class and courtship that manages to be both wonderfully proper and wonderfully petty.