'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession
of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.'
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets Mr Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and
conceited. When she later discovers that he has scuppered the
relationship between his friend Bingley and her sister Jane, she is
determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy that
follows, the family's lives are turned upside down as Jane Austen shows
the folly of judging by first impressions and pokes fun at the
affectations and etiquette of provincial life.