TY - BOOK AU - Austen, Jane TI - Pride & Prejudice SN - 9780140434262 U1 - 823 PY - 1996/// CY - London PB - penguin Books N2 - Published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice announced the arrival of the comedy of manners, a welcome change from the stiff, moralistic novels of the past. In recounting the courtship of the witty, indpendent Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy--the handsome bachelor whose arrogant pride Elizabeth regards as a fatal flaw--Austen illuminates, with subtle humor, the prejudices of society as a whole ER -