#10 in Literary fiction
Pride and Prejudice
- 367
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
- Film 2005 +11
- On screen
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Our view
A novel of manners in which the real plot is a change of mind: Elizabeth Bennet has to learn how unreliable a quick judgement can be, and Austen makes that lesson both funny and exact. The romance moves slowly, through conversation and family obligation rather than event, in prose of 1813 that asks for some attention. Readers who know the story only at second hand may find the book richer. A light, sharp pleasure.
Worth knowing Austen drafted it in 1796–97 as First Impressions, and a publisher declined it without reading it. Revised, it appeared in January 1813 without her name, credited to the author of Sense and Sensibility, after she had sold the copyright for £110. For a screen version, the long 1995 BBC series stays closest to the book, while the 2005 film with Keira Knightley is the quicker way in.
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About the book
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by English author Jane Austen. Written when she was aged 20–21, it was her third novel scribed and became the second to see print when it was published in 1813. A novel of manners, it follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 12 times — from 1940 to 2022.
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- FilmFire IslandIMDb
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- SeriesLost in AustenIMDb
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- FilmPride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day ComedyIMDb
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- SeriesThe Lizzie Bennet DiariesIMDb
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Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 4,447 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 97% of the weight and the score stays at 8.3 — the Literary fiction average of 8.1 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.4 | 399 | 9% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 350 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 3.7K | 83% |
Frequently asked
How long is Pride and Prejudice?
It has 367 pages — shorter than 67% of the ranked books in Literary fiction.
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