The Annotated Pride and Prejudice

Author: Austen, JaneBrand: AnchorColor: WhiteEdition: ExpandedFeatures: Used Book in Good ConditionBinding: PaperbackFormat: Bargain PriceNumber Of Pages: 739Release Date: 13-03-2007Part Number: 9780307950901Details: Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. (Note: In the printed book, annotations appear on facing pages; here in the excerpt they can be found as footnotes at the end of the excerpt.) Volume One Chapter One It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. (1) 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 (2) to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?" (3) Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. (4) "But it is," r