Annotations This book is unique because it contains a literary criticism that was made by Juan Acevedo January 28 marks two centuries of the publication of 'Pride and Prejudice' (in English, 'Pride and Prejudice'), one of the most famous novels of Jane Austen that had very good reviews and enjoyed popularity, although the prestige He had to wait until well past his death. Today she is considered one of the greatest writers of all time, to the point that Edmund Wilson in a letter he sent to Nabokov in 1950, trying to convince him - what he got - to include Jane Austen among European writers who should be part of the Course on European Literature that Nabokov was going to teach at Cornell University the following year, he wrote: "For me Jane Austen is among the half dozen of the best English writers, the others are Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Keats and Dickens." And 'Pride and Prejudice' is surely his best novel, one of the first romantic comedies that, like the rest of the author, have as a support the description of what life in the countryside was for the middle and high class, with the background of the long-awaited visits to relatives whose residence was opened to the intense social life of the much-admired city of London. Two young people, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, the main figures of the novel, are each defined by one of the two nouns in the title of the novel: pride for him, prejudice for her. And in a series of social events, of misunderstandings, of characters that in turn could be protagonists of other novels, as in fact they are, they acquire the understanding and experience that will be necessary to get closer to each other, to the margin of the requirements that in those years and in that England it was required to men and women to arrive at the marriage, apparently the only social happiness. A splendid novel full of sifted expressions of sensibility, observation and irony, and of those details that, as Nabokov himself recommended to readers, we must learn to "stop in them, enjoy them and pamper them." Because it is through them, from the details, that we come to the soul movements of the protagonists and the multiple characters of her family (father, mother and four sisters) and of the rich relatives of him, who draw in around his encounters the panorama of a way of understanding life almost decided in advance that adds women in the uncertain future that looms over them if they do not find a husband who will separate them from the solitude to which they will be condemned by their singleness.