Pride and Prejudice | Pride and Prejudice

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Author: Jane Austen
First Published: 1813
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Domestic realism
Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
Setting: Rural England
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

Elizabeth Bennet, a spirited and intelligent girl who represents “prejudice” in her attitude toward Fitzwilliam Darcy, whom she dislikes because of his pride. She is also prejudiced against him by Mr. Wickham, whose false reports of Darcy she believes, and hence rejects Darcy’s haughty first proposal of marriage. Yet Wickham’s elopement with her sister Lydia brings Elizabeth and Darcy together, for it is Darcy who facilitates the legal marriage of the runaways. Acknowledging her mistake in her estimation of Darcy, she gladly accepts his second...

Pride and Prejudice | Pride and Prejudice

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