<Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> Mansfield Park </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Text </Th> <Td> Pride and Prejudice at Wikisource </Td> </Tr> <P> Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel by Jane Austen . It charts the emotional development of protagonist Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential . The comedy of the writing lies in the depiction of manners, education, marriage, and money during the British Regency period . </P> <P> Mr. Bennet of the Longbourn estate has five daughters, but his property is entailed, meaning that none of the girls can inherit it . His wife has no fortune, so it is imperative that at least one of the girls marry well in order to support the others upon his death . Jane Austen's opening line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife", is a sentence filled with irony and playfulness . The novel revolves around the importance of marrying for love, not simply for money, despite the social pressures to make a good (i.e., wealthy) match . </P>

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