Clothbound book condition: as new. Dust jacket condition: as new. Dust jacket showing Whistler's The Little White Girl at front and quote from book at back as new; black boards with half-cloth black at spine as new; sewn binding sound; pages as new. 282 pages; 8.5 X 5.8 X 1; 1 lb. 6.5 oz. shipping weight. Jane Austen was the first English language writer of fiction to observe how people's behavior changed with their moods and how these observations could be used to develop a more fully realized character. Of all Austen's novels, Pride and Prejudice is her best known, and in it she brings her observations of human behavior to bear on just how such observations may lead one astray. The novel also explores the often times comic foibles of a family of the gentry of Georgian England, the Bennets.