When Elizabeth Bennet first meets once the bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, he considers him arrogant and conceited; she is indifferent to his beauty and his lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has been involved in the troubled relationship between her friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined not to like her more than ever. In the sparkling comedy that follows, Jane Austen shows how insane it is to judge from her first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of bourgeois provincial life.

In the original language.