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Titels van Jane Austen

• Emma (12)

  1816

• Northanger Abbey (1)

  1798

• Persuasion (1)

  1817

• Pride and prejudice (23)

  1813

• Sense and sensibility / Verstand en onverstand (13)

  1811

Title book:
Pride and prejudice

Total number of pages:
399

Name author:
Jane Austen

First published in:
1813

Name publisher of edition used:
Penguin classics

Description book cover:
A piece of a portrait from Lady Colville.

Alternative title could be:
Marry the right man

Your opinion of this book: 7
I really liked the book, because it was easy to read and to understand and it was funny at the time. I also liked the way that the characters and the surroundings were described, it was very realistic.
It was not a really exciting book, a little boring at the time because it was al about getting married, and nothing really happened.  The book was predictable because you know from the beginning that Elizabeth will marry Darcy. But the thing that grappled me was that they had to overcome their pride and their prejudices to realise that they belong to each other.

Point of view:
Omniscient narrator

Ending of the book:
Closed

Construction of story:
Chronological

Characters:
Mostly rounded

Theme:
Love

Genre:
Romance Novel

Time background:
Around 1800

Setting of place:
England, Loungbourn

Names of the main characters + short description
1. Elizabeth Bennet, a proud young woman with prejudices against rich people.
2. Fitzwilliam Darcy, a nice, rich man who is very shy.
3. Jane Bennet, the older sister of Elizabeth, a beautiful and really nice woman.
4. Charles Bingley, Jane's boyfriend, a very rich and beautiful man.
5. Lydia Bennet, the youngest sister, relay naïve.
6. George Wickham, the bad guy, tells bad things about Darcy and marries to Lydia.

Short outline of the plot:
Elisabeth Bennet lives with her parents and four sisters. She and her sisters are looking for husbands. They meet Darcy and Bingley at a ball. Bingley is interested in Jane. Darcy shows no interest in any of the girls.
William Collins asks Elisabeth to marry him. She refuses. Then the girls meet Wickham, Elisabeth likes him.
Darcy asks Elisabeth to marry him. She refuses. He writes her a letter to apologise. Elisabeth is surprised by his letter and realises that she loves him.
Elisabeth meets Mr. Darcy again and they like each other. She receives a letter from home. It says that Lydia ran away with Wickham. Later, Lydia writes that she is married to Wickham. Darcy asks for Elisabeths hand and Mr. Bennet gives permission. Elisabeth marries Darcy.

Fragment most liked/most hated:
"You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion on my poor nerves."
"You mistake, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twelve years at last."
"Ah! You do not know what I suffer."
"But I hope you will get over it, and live to see many young men of four thousand a year come into the neighbourhood."
"It will be no use to us, if twenty such should come since you will not visit them."
"Depend upon it, my dear, that when there are twenty, I will visit them all."
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