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Pride And Prejudice
(Jane Austen)

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This story deals with issues surrounding marriage in the late 18th century and early 19th century. The main character is Elizabeth Bennet, a twenty-year-old middle-class girl possessed of a quick mind, sharp wit, and keen sense of justice. Elizabeth's father, Mr. Bennet, spends much of his time hiding in his study, a refuge from Elizabeth's mother. Mrs. Bennet (whose manners and conduct are decidedly "of the people") is determined to see each of her five daughters successfully married to gentlemen of sufficient fortune to support a wife. The Bennet family estate is entailed to a cousin - Mr. Collins - due to the lack of male heirs in the Bennet family. Collins is a clergyman who tends to be wordy and snobbish, and is forever searching for opportunities to drop the name of his patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
Having been rejected by Elizabeth, Mr. Collins turns to Elizabeth's best friend Charlotte Lucas, and they are soon married - to Mrs. Bennet's profound disappointment. Mrs. Bennet's hopes are raised, however, by the presence in the district of a wealthy young man, Mr. Bingley, and his handsome but proud friend, Mr. Darcy, to whom Elizabeth immediately takes a dislike.
Elizabeth is wooed by Mr. Wickham, an officer in the militia whom she considers gentlemanlike, and whose side she takes in his quarrel with Mr. Darcy, who has gradually come to admire Elizabeth. Mr. Wickham later proves himself to be a cad and of poor character, seducing Elizabeth's youngest sister, Lydia. This follows his earlier attempt to seduce Mr. Darcy's beloved younger sister, Georgiana When Mr. Darcy hears of this new affair and sees Elizabeth's distress, he decides to help her, and takes it upon himself to bribe Mr. Wickham and persuade him to marry Lydia. Elizabeth gradually learns to see through Mr. Darcy's apparent flaws and realizes that the pride she saw in him at first is only shyness and she grows to love him. Mr. Darcy realizes Elizabeth's change and proposes a second time. Elizabeth accepts.



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