Dec 26, 2009

Pride and Prejudice | Pride and Prejudice

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Author: Jane Austen
First Published: 1813
Type of Work: Novel of Manners
Genres: Long fiction, Fiction of manners, Bourgeois fiction
Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Nineteenth century, Social issues, Marriage, Prejudices or antipathies, Class consciousness, Manners or customs, England or English people, Sisters, Money, Soldiers, Conformity, Gossip, Pretensions, Dating
Locales: Hertfordshire, England

When a novel focuses on the day-to-day life of a family with five young unmarried daughters, the subject is certain to be romance. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE’S depiction of Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia Bennet is something richer, though. As its title hints, the novel is a shrewd and subtle psychological study. Pride and prejudice are the double defects shared by the heroine and hero, spirited Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich, aristocratic young man she meets when his friend Bingley rents the estate next to the Bennets’.

In the course of the story, Darcy...

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Pride and Prejudice | Pride and Prejudice

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