Jane Austen was extremely modest about her genius, describing her work to her work to her nephew Edward as "That little but (two inches wide) of ivory in which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour." Although the world of her novel "Pride and Prejudice" is confined to a small section of society comprising of country-gentry and lesser aristocracy of England in the opening of the 19th century, …showed first 75 words of 1204 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1204 total…to think that it would not matter if there were no plot. The central figures whose union we desire grow upon us as their mistakes and recoveries reveal the fineness of their spirit. Therefore, in Austen's world there is a welcome for the sensitive reader who will accept it as it is and will not cry out for, in the words of one critic - "The moon of passionate embraces or the lightning of sword."