本书是英国著名女作家简·奥斯丁的代表作,是一部描写爱情与婚姻的小说。小说围绕班奈特太太如何把五个女儿嫁出去的主题展开。达西富有骄傲,代表傲慢;伊丽沙白聪明任性,代表偏见。最后,真爱终于打破了这种傲慢和偏见,小说在结婚典礼中结束,奥斯丁在这部小说中饶有风趣地反映了18世纪末、19世纪初英国乡情风俗和世态人情,给人以艺术的想象,是一部社会风俗喜剧佳作。本书为英文版。
Pride and Prejudice, first published on 28 January1813, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels andone of the first "romantic comedies" in the history ofthe novel.The book is Jane Austen's second publishednovel. Its manuscript was initially written between1796 and 1797 in Steventon, Hampshire, whereAusten lived in the rectory. Called First Impressions,it was never published under that title, and followingrevisions it was retitled Pride and Prejudice.