The best loved and most popular of Jane Austen's novels and the subject of dozens of film adaptations Pride & Prejudice has given us some of the most lasting heroes of English romantic literature.

Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, each lost in their own perception of the world, through which they casually judge others, are forced by circumstances to revise their opinions.

Excellent in its depiction of Georgian life, richly observed in detail and with a language that verges on the poetic Austen's masterpiece transports the reader into a pastoral world where the big questions about life, love and fidelity are answered through the actions of the story's principal characters.