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Pride & Prejudice:
Pride and Prejudice, first published on
28 January
1813,
is the most famous of
Jane Austen's novels. It is one of the first
romantic comedies in the history of the
novel
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."
Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797, and was
initially called First Impressions, but was never published
under that title. Following revisions, it was first published on
28 January
1813.
Like both its predecessor,
Sense and Sensibility, and
Northanger Abbey, it was written in
Steventon, Hampshire, where she lived in the
rectory. |