About the Book: Pride and Prejudice
The story 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 early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five
daughters of country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in
Hertfordshire, near London. The story begins as the people of rural Meryton
scurry to marry their daughters off to Charles Bingley, a dashing and eligible
bachelor who has taken an estate near the Bennets. At the villages welcoming
ball, Elizabeth meets up with a formidable adversary: Bingleys closest friend,
the cold, prideful, extremely