NO NOVEL IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE has given more pleasure to its audience than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simple fall in love with it - and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet. All readers are held fast not only by the novel's romantic suspense, but also by the fascinations of the world we visit. The life of English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is mode as real to us as our own, not only by the author's wit and feeling but by her subtle observation of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to each other and to ourselves.