这部作品以日常生活为素材，以反当时社会上流行的感伤小说的内容和矫揉造作的写作方法，生动地反映了18世纪末到19世纪初处于保守和闭塞状态下的英国乡镇生活和世态人情。

CONTENTS
PREFACE
Chapter I
Chapter I
Chapter III
Chapter IV.
Chapter V
Chapter V
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter X
Chapter XII
Chapter XII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVII
Chapter XIX.
Chapter XX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXIX.
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIV
Chapter XXXV
Chapter XXXVI
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XXXVIII
CONCLUSION

简.奥斯汀，简·奥斯汀（Jane Austen，1775年12月16日—1817年7月18日），英国女小说家，主要作品有《傲慢与偏见》、《理智与情感》等。

Chapter 1
It is a truth universally acknowledged,that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood,this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families,that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
"My dear Mr.Bennet,"said his lady to him one day,"have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?"
Mr.Bennet replied that he had not.
"But it is,"returned she;"for Mrs.Long has just been here,and she told me all about it."
Mr.Bennet made no answer.
"Do not you want to know who has taken it?"cried his wife impatiently.
"You want to tell me,and I have no objection to hearing it."
This was invitation enough.
"Why,my dear,you must know,Mrs.Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England;that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place,and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with Mr.Morris immediately;that he is to take possession before Michaelmas,and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week."
"What is his name?"
"Bingley."
"Is he married or single?"
"Oh!single,my dear,to be sure!A single man of large fortune;four or five thousand a year.What a fine thing for our girls!"
"How so?how can it affect them?"
"My dear Mr.Bennet,"replied his wife,"how can you be so tiresome!You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them."
"Is that his design in settling here?"
"Design!nonsense,how can you talk so!But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them,and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes."
"I see no occasion for that.You and the girls may go,or you may send them by themselves,which perhaps will be still better;for,as you are as handsome as any of them,Mr.Bingley might like you the best of the party."
"My dear,you flatter me.I certainly have had my share of beauty,but I do not pretend to be any thing extraordinary now.When a woman has five grown up daughters,she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty."
"In such cases,a woman has not often much beauty to think of."
"But,my dear,you must indeed go and see Mr.Bingley when he comes into the neighbourhood."