# Pride and Prejudice

**Author:** Jane Austen
**Lexile:** 1100L
**Grade range:** Grades 10–12
**Age range:** 14–18
**First published:** 1813
**Page count:** 432
**Genre:** Literary Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780141439518`
**ISBN-10:** `0141439513`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/pride-and-prejudice
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Austen's comedy of manners follows Elizabeth Bennet, the second of five unmarried sisters in Regency England, as she navigates pressure to marry well and her evolving judgment of the wealthy, aloof Mr. Darcy. A core AP Literature text and a common 11th-grade British Literature assignment.

## Themes

- marriage and class
- reputation
- self-knowledge
- pride and prejudice
- gender expectations
- social observation

## Content notes

- elopement
- class-based cruelty

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 11+

## Where this book is assigned

### AP English Literature & Composition

- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: AP Lit — frequently cited FRQ3 text](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition)

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 11-CCR British literature exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)

### IB Diploma Programme — English A: Literature

- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: IB DP English A Literature Prescribed Reading List](https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/)

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