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Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy's classic love story, Austen's most read book Few people haven't been won over by Elizabeth Bennet's witty and independent personality in Jane Austen's well-known masterpiece Pride and Prejudice. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets Fitzwilliam Darcy, an eligible bachelor, she finds him haughty and egotistical; he is uninterested in her attractiveness and sharp mind. She is resolved to hate Darcy more than ever when she later learns that he has been involved in the tumultuous relationship between his buddy Bingley and her adored sister Jane. In the lively comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen brilliantly captures the friendships, gossip, and snobbery of rural middle-class life and demonstrates the foolishness of basing decisions on first impressions.