Few readers have failed to be similarly charmed by the wit and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr Darcy - who is quite the most handsome and eligible bachelor in the whole of English literature - is a misjudgement arising from her prejudice, and is only matched in folly by Darcy's arrogant pride. Their first impressions of one another give way to truer feelings in this insightful comedy profoundly concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved.
