For Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.

When Elinor Dashwood's father dies, her family's finances are crippled. After the Dashwoods move to a cottage in Devonshire, Elinor's sister Marianne is torn between the handsome John Willoughby and the older Colonel Brandon. Meanwhile, Elinor's romantic hopes with Edward Ferrars are hindered due to his prior engagement. Both Elinor and Marianne strive for love while the circumstances in their lives constantly change.

Sense and Sensibility: Two sisters, one practical and conventional and the other emotional and sentimental, find that only through compromise of their mutual differences can they get along. Pride and prejudice: Wealthy Mr. Darcy and spirited Elizabeth Bennett dislike each other at first sight, and each must contend with their pride and prejudices while Elizabeth's mother plots economically advantageous marriages for all her daughters. Emma: Emma Woodhouse...

The novels of Jane Austen all follow a similar pattern: a young woman, for a variety of reasons has difficulty securing the right husband. She works out her courtship problems in an English country town amidst intrigues and counterplots. The making of a suitable marriage was the great theme of nineteenth-century literature, from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens, from George Eliot to Henry James.

A cautionary tale about the evils of hasty judgment, Pride and Prejudice is arguably, one of the most satisfying love stories ever written.