Did you love Emma? Then you should read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen!
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
So begins the greatest romance novel of all time. Austen’s set-up is ingenious:
Mrs. Bennet has but one aim in life: to find a good match for each of her five daughters. Mr. Bennet, a mild and indolent man given to witty cynicisms, refuses to take this vulgar project seriously; he ridicules his wife instead of giving her support in her schemes. One of the daughters, Elizabeth, becomes prejudiced against her future suitor, Darcy, because of his arrogance and his uncalled-for interference with his friend Bingley’s courtship of her sister Jane. In interfering with Jane and Bingley, Darcy is influen
