PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by JANE AUSTEN

Originally written in 1813.

Digitized by an unknown party, this text has been on
the Internet for several years and in a number of places.
This is the only electronic edition we have seen that
is good enough to make available at Wiretap.

Corrected against the 1923 R.W.Chapman edition.

This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, posted to Wiretap 8/94.

From: Henry Churchyard <churchh@uts.cc.utexas.edu>
Message-Id: <199408291359.IAA18607@curly.cc.utexas.edu>
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Subject: Pride and Prejudice 
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 08:59:47 -0500

I have uploaded a much-improved and corrected version of the somewhat
corrupted e-text of Jane Austen' _Pride_and_Prejudice_ that has been
floating around the net.

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         --Henry Churchyard     churchh@uts.cc.utexas.edu

[This e-text is in the public domain, and has been corrected
against the 1923 R.W. Chapman edition, with slight punctuation
modernization, by LIFY436@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu.  Chapman's
chronology and dramatis personae are included at the end of
this file.  Roman-numeral chapter numbers are relative to each
volume, while parenthesized chapter numbers are continuous
throughout the whole work.  Some spelling inconsistencies and
archaisms have been retained from the first editions.]

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<TITLE                  Pride And Prejudice
>
<SUBTITLE             A Novel in Three Volumes

              by the Author of "Sense and Sensibility"
>
<AUTHOR                     Jane Austen
>
<DATE                          1813
>


<CHAPTER I (1)>

IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be
on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well
fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is
considered as the rightful property of some one or other of
their daughters.

"My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you
heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?"

Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.

"But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here,
and she told me all about it."

Mr. Bennet made no answer.

"Do not you want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife
impatiently.

"_You_ want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it."

This was invitation enough.

"Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield
is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of
England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to
see the place, and was so much delighted with it that he agreed
with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession
before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the
house by the end of next week."

"What is his name?"

"Bingley."

"Is he married or single?"

"Oh!  single, my dear, to be sure!  A single man of large
fortune; four or five thousand a year.  What a fine thing for
our girls!"

"How so?  how can it affect them?"

"My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so
tiresome!  You must know that I am thinking of his marrying