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[[Image:pride_n_prejudice.jpg|thumb|210px|''Pride and Prejudice'' book cover]]
'''''Pride and Prejudice''''' is the most famous of [[Jane Austen]]'s novels. It was written between [[1796]] and [[1797]], and was initially called ''First Impressions.'' Revised in [[1811]], it was published two years later in [[1813]] by the same Mr. Egerton, of the [[Military Library]], [[Whitehall]], who had brought out ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]''. Like both its predecessor and ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'', it was written at [[Steventon Rectory]].
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== Plot summary ==
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This story deals with issues surrounding marriage in the late [[18th century]] and early [[19th century]]. The main character is [[Elizabeth Bennet]], a twenty-year-old middle-class girl possessed of a quick mind, sharp wit, and keen sense of justice. Elizabeth's father, [[Mr. Bennet]], spends much of his time hiding in his study, a refuge from Elizabeth's mother. [[Mrs. Bennet]] (whose manners and conduct are decidedly "of the people") is determined to see each of her five daughters successfully married to gentlemen of sufficient fortune to support a wife. The Bennet family estate is entailed to a cousin - [[Mr. Collins]] - due to the lack of male heirs in the Bennet family. Collins is a clergyman who tends to be wordy and snobbish, and is forever searching for opportunities to drop the name of his patroness, Lady [[Catherine de Bourgh]].
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Having been rejected by Elizabeth, Mr. Collins turns to Elizabeth's best friend [[Charlotte Lucas]], and they are soon married - to Mrs. Bennet's profound disappointment. Mrs. Bennet's hopes are raised, however, by the presence in the district of a wealthy young man, [[Mr. Bingley]], and his handsome but proud friend, [[Mr. Darcy]], to whom Elizabeth immediately takes a dislike.
Elizabeth is wooed by [[Mr. Wickham]], an officer in the militia whom she considers "gentlemanlike", and whose side she takes in his quarrel with Mr. Darcy, who has gradually come to admire Elizabeth. Mr. Wickham later proves himself to be a cad and of poor character, seducing Elizabeth's youngest sister, [[Lydia Bennet|Lydia]]. This follows his earlier attempt to seduce Mr. Darcy's beloved younger sister, [[Georgiana Darcy|Georgiana]]. When Mr. Darcy hears of this new affair and sees Elizabeth's distress, he decides to help her, and takes it upon himself to bribe Mr. Wickham and persuade him to marry Lydia. Elizabeth gradually learns to see through Mr. Darcy's apparent flaws and realizes that the pride she saw in him at first is only shyness and she grows to love him. Mr. Darcy realizes Elizabeth's change and proposes a second time. Elizabeth accepts.
== Themes ==
Marriage plays a large role in Pride and Prejudice. Some characters marry for security, some marry for wealth and some marry for love. While Jane Austen does not satirise the institution of marriage, she does in fact satirise women's role in marriage. The idea of marriage is very important throughout the novel.
Social classes are also taken into account and play a major role as a theme in Pride and Prejudice. People of higher class are very proud of themselves and do not like to socialise with those of lower class. A pure example is Darcy when we first meet him. Also, the Bingley sisters often talk together about the way people of lower classes act and look bitterly upon them. It is also seen as bad for people of higher classes to mingle with lower classes, but Bingley puts this idea away and proves to be a very social character.
== Film and Television Adaptations==
''Pride and Prejudice'' has been the subject of many film and television adaptations [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000807/].
*[[2005]]: [[Pride and Prejudice (2005 movie)|Pride and Prejudice]], starring [[Keira Knightley]] and [[Matthew MacFadyen]].
*[[2004]]: [[Bride and Prejudice]], the [[Bollywood]] version, directed by [[Gurinder Chadha]] and starring [[Anupam Kher]], [[Aishwarya Rai]], and [[Naveen Andrews]].
*[[2003]]: [[Pride and Prejudice (2003 movie)|Pride and Prejudice]].
*[[2001]]: [[Bridget Jones's Diary (2001 film)|Bridget Jones's Diary]] with [[Colin Firth]] as Darcy.
*[[1995]]: [[Pride and Prejudice (BBC)|Pride and Prejudice]], the BBC production, starring [[Colin Firth]] as Darcy and [[Jennifer Ehle]] as Elizabeth.
*[[1940]]: [[Pride and Prejudice (1940 movie)|Pride and Prejudice]] starring [[Laurence Olivier]] in the role of Darcy, and [[Greer Garson]] as Elizabeth.
There were five additional BBC television productions of ''Pride and Prejudice'', made in 1938, 1952, 1958 1967, and 1980.
==Trivia==
* The [[1995]] [[Pride and Prejudice (BBC)]] version used [[Lyme Hall]], [[Cheshire]] as the ___location for "[[Pemberley]]".
* In [[2003]] the BBC conducted the largest ever poll for the "[[Big Read|UK's Best-Loved Book]]" in which Pride and Prejudice came second.
* Author [[Philip Jose Farmer]] has placed Elizabeth and Darcy (and their descendants) in his [[Wold Newton family]].
==See also==
*[[First Impressions]], [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical version of ''Pride and Prejudice''
==External links==
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