It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. Jane Austen's best-loved novel of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the landed gentry society of early 19th century England. Witty dialogue and a keen eye for human nature make Austen as fresh today as she was two hundred years ago.