Pride and Prejudice (version 5) by Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

Pride and Prejudice, first published on 28 January 1813, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. It is one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature —"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." [From Wikipedia] Co-BC - Micah Sheppard Cataloging - David Lawrence