This novel is a favourite among many women and yes some men. Many movies have been done based on the novel and the classic BBC Pride and Prejudice rendition was true to Jane Austen’s work of genius. It will take you several hours to watch the BBC version but the novel will only take a couple of hours of solid reading. Austen’s humour and correct observations of the workings of society at that time will leave you delighted and cheering for the heroines in the novel as their mother seeks to marry them off to the closest eligible bachelors. This is a book to be read over and over again.