A Year of Reading Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
presented by the Westport Library in partnership with the Jane Austen Society North America, CT Region.
Pride and Prejudice is the tale of Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters, who are struggling to find the elusive path to love and financial security in early 1800s England. Enter haughty, wealthy, handsome but proud Mr. Darcy with his friend Mr. Bingley, and all of their lives will be irrevocably changed. Will pride and prejudice stand in the way of true love? Or will every trial and disaster thrown in their way be simply a means to bring them closer to each other and to an understanding of their own hearts? This is the love story of love stories, laced with humour and wit along with a sharp insight into the truth of human nature and a good dose of romance. It is, above all, a modern book, although written hundreds of years ago.
From GoodReads
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
