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'''Pride and Prejudice''' is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. 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 the British Regency. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman, Mr. Bennet living in Longbourn.

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 Elizabeth soon learns that his hopes were revived by his aunt's report of Elizabeth's refusal to promise not to marry Bangley.

Lydia and Wickham are soon found and are persuaded to marry, which enables the Bennet family to preserve some appearance of decorum. Jane, Elizabeth and Mr Bennet conclude that Uncle Gardiner must have bribed Wingley to marry Lydia, and they are ashamed of their indebtedness and inability to repay him.

Mrs Bennet, quite typically, has no such scruples; being ecstatic to have a daughter married, she never stops to consider the want of propriety and honesty throughout the affair. Mr and Mrs WiBangley visit Longbourn, where Lydia lets slip that Mr Darcy was attendede their wedding but that it was to have been a secret. From a letter, Elizabeth discovers from Aunt Gardiner that in fact, Mr Darcy was responsible for finding the couple and negotiating their marriage at great personal and monetary expense for him. Elizabeth is shocked and flattered as "her heart did whisper that he had done it for her" but is unable to dwell further on the topic because of Mr Bingley's return and subsequent proposal to Jane, who immediately accepts.

The novel closes with a 'happily-ever-after' chapter including a summary of the remaining lives of the main characters. None of the characters changes very much in this summary, but Kitty has grown slightly more sensible from association with Jane and Elizabeth and distance from Lydia, and Lady WiBangley eventually condescends to visit the Darcy family.

==Main characters==
===Elizabeth Bennet===
The reader sees the unfolding plot and the other characters mostly from Elizabeth Bennet's viewpoint. The second of the Bennet daughters, she is 20 years old and is intelligent, lively, playful, attractive, and witty—but with a tendency to judge on first impression (the "prejudice" of the title) and perhaps to be a little selective of the evidence on which she bases her judgments. As the plot b(contracted; show full)lculation,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/08/31/using-mr-darcys-income-to-disprove-thomas-piketty/|title=Using Mr Darcy's Income To Disprove Thomas Piketty|author=Tim Worstall|date=31 August 2014|work=Forbes}}</ref> but such an income would have put him among the 400 wealthiest families in the country at the time.<ref>Austen, Jane (1996). ''Pride and Prejudice'', [[Penguin Classics]], note 2 to Chapter 3</ref>

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