Essay Archive - Pride and Prejudice: Summary
Pride and Prejudice: Summary
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a complex novel that relates the
events surrounding the relations, lives, and loves of a middle-upper class
English family in the late nineteenth century. Because of the detailed
descriptions of the events surrounding the life of the main character of the
story, Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice is a very involving novel whose
title is very indicative of the themes contained therein.
The first volume opens in the Bennet household at Longbourn in England.
As there are five unmarried daughters living in the home at the time, the matron
of the fa....
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