PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Pride and Prejudice (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 (First Impressions), was among the great favorites of the 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 his name ("by the author of Sense and Sensibility") because his condition of "woman of good society" forbids him to claim the status of writer in his own right. Funny and romantic, Jane Austen's masterpiece continues to enjoy considerable popularity, with its well-rounded characters, its intricately constructed and engaging plot, its numerous twists, and its unforgettable humor. Behind the romantic adventures of the five Bennet girls, Jane Austen faithfully portrays the rigidities of English society at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth 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. The great classic of English literature, Pride and Prejudice, is at the origin of the greatest number of adaptations based on an Australian work, both in cinema and on television. Since Pride and Prejudice by Robert Z. Leonard in 1940, he has inspired a number of subsequent works: novels, films, and even a comic book published by Marvel. In his 1954 essay, Ten Novels and Their Authors, Somerset Maugham ranked him in second place among the ten novels he considered the greatest. In 2013, Le Nouvel Observateur, in a special issue devoted to nineteenth and twentieth century literature, cited him among the sixteen titles selected for the nineteenth century, considering it as "perhaps the first masterpiece of the female literature ". JANE AUSTEN Jane Austen (born 16 December 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, England, and died on July 18, 1817 in Winchester, England) is an English writer of letters, her realism, her biting social criticism and her mastery of speech. free indirect, his offbeat humor and his 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, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (published anonymously in 1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she was successful. Two other novels, Northanger Abbey (completed in fact in 1803) and Persuasion, are both posthumously published in 1818; in January 1817 she began her last novel, finally entitled Sanditon, which she could not complete until her death. Jane Austen's work is, among other things, a critique of the sentimental novels of the second half of the eighteenth century and belongs to the transition that leads to the literary realism of the nineteenth century.