Bookreport 5H/5V/V6
INFORMATION
Title and title explanation Pride and prejudice. Pride because the wealthy people love to talk with pride about their life without worries
and social class, like Darcy did. Prejudice because Elizabeth had prejudiced Darcy.
Author + some short The author is Jane Austen. She was born on 16 December in 1775, she died on 18 July 1817. She was an
information about him/her English writer who was famous for her novels, which in many cases critique upon the British landed gentry
Any connection to the book? (the British social class which consisted of wealthy landowners who mostly lived from rental income). She
was born in Steventon, Hampshire. Austen and Cassandra, her sister, went to Oxford to be educated.
Austen nearly died of typhus.
Publication (where, year of Pride and prejudice was first published in London by T. Egerton in 1813. The year of my edition is 2015.
1st edition, year of your
edition)
Number of pages 368 pages.
CONTENTS (inhoud)
Short summary of plot "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of
(max. 25 lines) in your own a wife", this sentence is iconic for the book. The story is about a family, the Bennet's, consisting of the
words reserved Mr Bennet, his foolish wife whose sole purpose is to make sure her daughters get married, and
their five girls. At a ball where Mr Darcy is present he turned out to be pretty arrogant and his attitude shows
he thinks the people of Longbourn were far below his dignity. Elizabeth, one of girls from the Bennet family,
overhears Mr Darcy saying to Bingley that he did not think Elizabeth was pretty enough to tempt him. Then
she gets the first feeling of prejudice against him. Later Darcy gets more interested in Elizabeth but Elizabeth
despises him and is attracted to Wickham. Then the Bennet family gets visited by their cousin, William
Collins. He will inherit Mr. Bennet's house when he dies and in order to keep the house, Mrs. Bennet wants
Elizabeth to marry Collins since Collins liked Elizabeth very much. Mr Collins then asks Elizabeth to marry
him but Elizabeth refuses, Mr Collin leaves the family but Elizabeth's best friend, Charlotte Lucas wants to
marry Collins because she wants to marry for security rather than love and they get married soon after.
Jane, Elizabeth's sister, finds out that Bingley, the man she is in love with, suddenly left to London and Jane
is devastated. Elizabeth visits her friend Charlotte and there she meets Darcy's aunt, Lady Catherine De
Bourgh. Darcy visits his aunt, and there he proposes to Elizabeth. Elizabeth who is still convinced Darcy was
responsible for the separation of her sister Jane and Mr Bingley refuses the offer but the next day she
receives a letter from him explaining what happened and also facts about the situation with Wickham.
Elizabeth concludes Darcy, despite being proud, is innocent and she realizes her pride prejudice against
him. They fall in love but then Elizabeth receives a letter from her sister that Lydia as eloped with Wickham.
In the end, Bingley returns to Netherfield and asks Jane to marry him, she accepts of course and Darcy asks
