Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen''s timeless romance consistently appears on top of "most loved books" among literary scholars and the reading public, and has been adapted into a 2005 movie starring Keira Knightley. "Like all masterpieces of literature, it cannot be digested in one reading."

Austen''s level of realism in portraying her three-dimensional characters is unparalleled in English literature.

"Not even Dickens...