oussama el-janaty

Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen. ... Jane Austen's opening line--"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"--is a sentence filled with irony and sets the tone for the book.

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Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen. ... Jane Austen's opening line--"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"-is a sentence filled with irony and sets the tone for the book.