Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen\'s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - a sentence filled with irony and playfulness.
It charts the emotional develo. "The most beloved novel in the language" - The New Yorker Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel by Jane Austen.
Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen\'s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - a sentence filled with irony and playfulness