Pride and Prejudice is a novel by the English writer Jane Austen, published in 1813. It is considered one of her most significant works and is also the best known of the public. Written between 1796 and 1797, the text, then in its first version, was among the great favorites of family readings that were done in the evening at the vigil in the family Austen. Revised in 1811, it is finally published two years later, in January 1813. Its success in bookstore is immediate, but although the first edition is quickly exhausted, Jane Austen derives no notoriety: the novel is indeed published without mentioning her name because her status as a woman of good society forbids her to claim the status of a full-fledged writer. Funny and romantic, Jane Austen's masterpiece continues to enjoy considerable popularity, with its well-rounded characters, its intricately constructed and engaging plot, its many twists and turns, and its unforeseen humor. Behind the romantic adventures of the five Bennet girls, Jane Austen faithfully portrays the rigidities of English society at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Through the behavior and reflections of Elizabeth Bennet, her main character, she raises the issues facing women of the small country gentry to ensure economic security and social status. At this time and in this environment, the solution passes almost inevitably through marriage: this explains why the two major themes of Pride and Prejudice are money and marriage, which serve as a basis for the development of secondary themes. Great classic of English literature, Pride and Prejudice is at the origin of the greatest number of adaptations, both in cinema and on television. He inspired a lot of subsequent works: novels, movies, and comics. This novel is among the ten greatest novels and the first masterpiece of literature written by a woman. Author Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) is an English writer. Her realism, her biting social criticism and her mastery of free indirect speech, offbeat humor and irony have made her one of the most widely read and loved English writers. Throughout her life, Jane Austen lives in a close-knit family unit belonging to the English gentry. She owes her education largely to her father and older brothers, as well as to her own reading. The unfailing support of his family is essential for his evolution as a professional writer. Jane Austen's artistic apprenticeship spans from early adolescence to around twenty-five. During this period, she experimented with different literary forms, including the epistolary novel that she experimented with before abandoning it, and wrote and reworked three major novels, while beginning a fourth. From 1811 to 1816, published Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she was successful. Two other novels, Northanger Abbey (1803) and Persuasion, are both posthumously published in 1818. Jane Austen's work is, among other things, a critique of the romance novels of the second half of the 18th century and belongs to the transition that leads to the literary realism of the 19th century. The intrigues of Jane Austen, although essentially comical in nature, that is to say, with a happy ending, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to obtain social status and economic security. She is particularly interested in moral issues. His reputation is modest in his lifetime, with some favorable reviews. In the 19th century, his novels are admired only by the literary elite. The publication in 1869 of A Memoir of Jane Austen written by her nephew, makes it known to a wider public. Then you discover an attractive personality, and, as a result, the popular interest for his works takes off.