Resumo de Pride & Prejudice

As I was reaching for this book, I was full of fears, as there are so
many romance and soap opera books on the market now, for businesswomen,
busy housewifes willing to rest sometimes, or finally for everyone
craving a real love. The choice is wide and....schematic. Nevertheless
I have recently decided to make up the leeway, and I've reached for the
output of a writer once very popular, but now, after reading this book
I can say, underestimated. Pride and prejudice is by far Jane
Austen's best book, that due to enormous demand for certain type of
literature, many years after Austen's death, was diminished to a
non-thinking novels category. It is too often forgotten, that although
the imitations were not very often different from the original, it is
an undeniable fact that this writer of XIX century was the queen of
those who dreamt about a great love. What is it that distinguishes her
from the others? Well, firstly humour - a careful reader won't
definately miss a skillfully repainted picture of interpersonal
relationships in England of XVIII and XIX century, and, at the same
time the opinion of the author herself on the society she was bound to
live in. Although this might sound like a historical book, but that's
not only what it is. This book can drag the reader in - until the very
end there's no way of figuring out how the whole adventure would
eventually finish for the Bingley family, not to mention you don't
really know, which one of them is to be the hero of the romance. And
there's nothing strange about that - six sisters is a huge problem for
a mother, who seems to have one and the only thing troubling her mind -
how to marry them favourably. From the very first page, after having
learnt that a young, wealthy bachelor had moved in, she realizes the
only thing such people like him need is wife. Therefore, as Jane got
sick while paying him a visit, the mother wouldn't be worried about it
at all. She would think it was a great opportunity to get the
youngsters to know each other better. Everything, with some
distance and not without irony regarding his wife's plans is being
watched by Mr Bingley, who has a special, extra-ordinary bond
with his oldest daughter Elisabeth, who seems to be as wise and
intelligent as he is. Although it is simple and humble Jane who is
going through ups and downs of love, fate has prepared something for
Elisabeth as well. Pride and prejudice are the two main feelings
present in souls of the heroes. Who turns out to be overweening? How
and when those prejudices arise ?? Will there be a way to defeat them
?? The answers to those questions may be obvious, but these answers
lead to another questions. Not only is this novel a gallery of three or
four unusual characters, but also it is a classic romance with happy
end, yet written by an author whose life cannot be described as happy...

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