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What if the person you judge most harshly is the one you most need to understand?
In the English countryside, Elizabeth Bennet wants a marriage built on respect. Her mother wants husbands for all five daughters before their home passes to a male cousin. When Elizabeth meets the wealthy, reserved Mr Darcy at a country dance, their first impressions leave little room for affection.
Around them, Jane Bennet hopes for happiness with the friendly Charles Bingley, while the charming George Wickham offers Elizabeth another reason to distrust Darcy. Money, rank and family expectations press against private feelings. Jane Austen turns these tensions into a sharp comedy about how readily people mistake confidence for clear judgment.
What you’ll discover
- A mind worth meeting Elizabeth’s wit and independence make every clash with social expectations a pleasure to follow.
- Attraction against resistance Watch Elizabeth and Darcy struggle with feelings that challenge their judgments of each other.
- Marriage with real stakes Behind the talk of suitable husbands lie money, rank and the Bennet sisters’ uncertain future.
- Comedy in every courtesy Meet anxious Mrs Bennet, mocking Mr Bennet and Mr Collins, full of flattery and self-importance.
- The limits of first impressions Share Elizabeth’s view of events and question how easily charm can earn your trust.
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Readers who love sharp dialogue, family comedy, and romances that grow through conversation will feel at home here, along with anyone curious about how money, manners, and first impressions shape love.
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- A rich bachelor arrives and a village stirs
- A careless remark at a ball starts everything
- Elizabeth walks three miles to nurse Jane
- Mr. Collins proposes and Charlotte accepts him
- Wickham's charm and Darcy's reputation collide
- Bingley leaves and Jane hides her pain
- At Hunsford, Elizabeth faces Darcy's proposal
- Elizabeth learns that her own judgment failed
- Money and rank decide how people are judged
- Austen tells it with irony and quick talk
Who’s who
- Elizabeth BennetThe second Bennet daughter, lively and quick, who trusts her own judgment of people and wants to marry only with respect.
- Mr. DarcyA wealthy, reserved owner of Pemberley who is proud of his rank and slow to show warmth.
- Jane BennetThe gentle eldest sister who sees good in everyone and hopes for Mr. Bingley's affection.
- Mr. BingleyA rich, easygoing young man who rents Netherfield and trusts his friend Darcy's judgment.
- Mrs. BennetElizabeth's anxious mother, who wants her five daughters well married and talks of nothing else.
- Mr. BennetElizabeth's dry, witty father, who loves his library and laughs at the follies around him.
- Mr. CollinsA pompous clergyman and cousin who will inherit Longbourn and looks for a wife to please his patroness.
- George WickhamA charming militia officer who tells Elizabeth a painful story about Darcy and wins her sympathy.
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen · 1813
Five Bennet sisters, one rich newcomer, and a proud man who calls Elizabeth only tolerable.
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Imagine a village where a rich man cannot move in without every mother counting her daughters. That is how Pride and Prejudice begins, with Mrs.
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A rich bachelor arrives and a village stirs
The story opens with a joke about wealth and marriage. Mrs. Bennet tells her husband that Netherfield Park has been rented by a young man named Bingley, who has four or five thousand pounds a year. She wants Mr. Bennet to call on him at once, because she has five daughters to settle. He answers with dry remarks.
Then he goes anyway and tells nobody. The news comes out when he tells his second daughter, Lizzy, that he hopes Mr. Bingley will like her hat. Mrs. Bennet swings from sulking to delight in a single breath. Mr. Bennet is clever and sarcastic. Mrs. Bennet has little sense and a firm belief that her nerves are always suffering.
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What is Pride and Prejudice about?
It follows Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters in rural England as a wealthy newcomer moves nearby. Elizabeth and the proud Mr. Darcy misjudge each other, and the story traces how love, money, family, and honest self-examination change them both.
Who is Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice?
Fitzwilliam Darcy is the wealthy owner of Pemberley in Derbyshire and the close friend of Mr. Bingley. He is reserved and proud at first meeting, and much of the story is about how Elizabeth comes to see him more fairly.
What do the title words pride and prejudice mean?
Pride shows in Darcy's sense of rank and in Elizabeth's confidence in her own sharp judgment. Prejudice is the quick opinion each forms about the other and about people like Wickham. The book tests both qualities through scenes and conversations.
The author
Jane Austen
1775–1817 · English novelist
Jane Austen was an English novelist born in Steventon, Hampshire, in 1775. She lived in Bath, Southampton and Chawton, and died in Winchester in 1817. Her novels included Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815). Northanger Abbey and Persuasion appeared after her death.
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