Quatrième de couverture : Orgueil et préjugés est le plus connu des six romans achevés de Jane Austen. Son histoire, sa question, est en apparence celle d'un mariage : l'héroïne, la vive et ironique Elizabeth Bennett qui n'est pas riche, aimera-t-elle le héros, le riche et orgueilleux Darcy ?
Si oui, en sera-t-elle aimée ?
Si oui, encore, l'épousera-t-elle ?
Mais il apparaît clairement qu'il n'y a en fait qu'un héros qui est l'héroïne, et que c'est par elle, en elle et pour elle que tout se passe.

VIRAGO EDITION:
The arrival of rich, amiable Mr Bingley and his friend Mr Darcy sets tongues wagging in a Hertfordshire neighbourhood. No one is more excited than Mrs Bennett who, with five daughters to marry off, is delighted when Bingley seems smitten by the eldest, Jane. When Bingley unexpectedly leaves the area, her sister Elizabeth suspects that the haughty Darcy has intervened: she is uncomfortably aware that her indifferent father, her enthusiastic mother, and the silly behaviour of her young sisters when a regiment is stationed nearby, do little to enhance the family's eligibility. And Elizabeth's theories about Darcy seem to be upheld when Mr Wickham, a regimental officer, confides that he too has been poorly treated by Darcy...
ELizabeth's prejudice and the pride of Mr Darcy and his formidable aunt cause complications and misunderstandings which bring the Bennett family almost to catastrophe. In a wide range of settings love, vanity and recklessness are vividly shown in this sparkling and often surprising novel - Jane Austen's most highly spirited and perhaps best loved.