“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” -Jane Austen(Pride & Prejudice)
This lines are the soul of this novel.This novel dealt with contemporary young ladies way of finding husbands with deeper conflict of the social situations.What was marriage according to them at that point of time.It is a nice novel.
It is a very common novel for literature students. Bookworms can try this book once.