Pride and Prejudice: in Modern English
Author: Jane Austen
Editor: Joy Anne Bennet
Published: August 2015
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Pride and Prejudice follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners,
upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency.
Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman, Mr. Bennet, living in Longbourn, in
England in the late 18th century. Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's five
unmarried daughters after two gentlemen have moved into their neighborhood: the rich and eligible Mr.
Bingley, and his status-conscious friend, the even more rich and eligible Mr. Darcy. While Bingley
takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy is disdainful of local society
and repeatedly clashes with the Bennets' lively second daughter, Elizabeth.
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