Celebrating Openings #4: “Pride & Prejudice” by Jane Austen

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

~ Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817

I promised, in February, when I kicked off featuring some of the great book openings, that I wasn’t going to start with Jane Austen and Pride & Prejudice.

Unquestionably, though, it is one of the great opening lines, as well as being among the most universally enduring in the public psyche. So I feel that to leave it any longer would be remiss.

So m...