British literature brings readers joy and sorrow

"A lady's imagination is very rapid: it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment". --- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."

 --- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen