本书描写傲慢的单身青年达西与偏见的二小姐伊丽莎白、富裕的单身贵族彬格莱与贤淑的大小姐简之间的感情纠葛，充分表达了作者本人的婚姻观，强调经济利益对恋爱和婚姻的影响。小说情节富有喜剧性，语言机智幽默，是奥斯丁小说中****的一部，并被多次改编成电影和电视剧。**文学评论家和历史学家乔治•塞恩斯伯里于1894年宣称它是“作者作品中最完美、最具特色和最显着的典型”，而尤多拉•韦尔蒂在二十世纪则将其描述为“令人无法抗拒，几近完美的一部小说。”

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it--and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.

We are captivated not only by the novel's romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit in its pages. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by Jane Austen's wit and feeling but by her subtle observation of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to each other and ourselves.