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Elizabeth Bennett and Darcy misunderstand each other at the outset – he thinks she is rather vulgar, and she thinks that he is horribly stuck-up. As the novel goes on they both re-learn how to judge one another, they re-evaluate the other’s moral worth. Among many other things, Pride and Prejudice is an exploration of moral epistemology.
“I have read Pride and Prejudice, I would guess, 40 or 50 times. I’ve taught it at every level of college, of graduate school.”
Patricia Meyer Spacks, Literary Scholar
“The book is about the pleasure of being wrong. We forget that wrongness can be deeply pleasurable, but thankfully we have literature and art to remind us.”
Kathryn Schulz, Journalist
“This book is one of the perfect novels, in style and plot and characters. I think it is easy to overlook quite how inspiring it was when it insisted on a woman’s right to marry for love.”
Amanda Craig, Journalist
Meg Rosoff
A C Grayling
