Here is the summary of "Pride and prejudice".Set in the English countryside in a county roughly thirty miles from
London,
the novel opens with the Bennet family in Longbourn and their
five unmarried daughters. The family itself is not nearly as rich as
those they interact with and because they have no sons, the property is
entailed to pass to a male heir, in this case Mr. Collins. Mrs. Bennet
is intent on seeing her daughters married off to wealthy men and when
Charles Bingley arrives at nearby Netherfield Park she is excited by
the prospect of introducing her daughters to him. She immediately sends
her husband to visit him on the first day he arrives.
When he next arrives, Bingley brings with him Mr. Darcy and his
two sisters, Miss Bingley and Mrs. Hurst. Bingley is immediately
attracted to Jane Bennet, the oldest of the five sisters. Darcy, unlike
the social apt Bingley, is proud and rude, immediately insulting
Elizabeth Bennet when someone suggests he asks her to dance, insulting
her appearance. Later, at the next dance after witnessing the sharpness
of her mind, Darcy displays an attraction to Elizabeth at a second
ball, but she refuses him because of how the insults he heaped upon her
before. Jane and Bingley however only become closer and when Jane
becomes ill on a visit to Netherfield, she stays there for a few days,
asking Elizabeth to join her and help care for her. During her stay,
Elizabeth is forced to confront Darcy again and again and while she is
still disinterested in him, he begins to fall for her wit and frank
approach to conversation, being so used to pretty words from other
women. Elizabeth quickly realizes that Miss Bingley largely dislikes
the Bennet family and that she only pretends to be friends with Jane. Soon after, Bingley, his sisters, and Darcy depart for London,
announcing to Jane that they have no intentions of returning to
Netherfield anytime soon and that Bingley will likely marry another
woman, Miss Darcy, Mr. Darcy''s sister.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth meets Mr. Wickham who she immediately is drawn
towards. He tells her falsehoods about his relationship with Mr. Darcy,
that he was cheated out of a piece of inheritance from
Darcy''s father. However, Wickham soon takes up
with another woman who he plans to marry and Elizabeth, after the
careful warnings of her family leaves him be.
Jane goes to stay in London after the Gardiners, her aunt and
uncle, arrive and offer their residence for her upon hearing of her
plight with Bingley. She tries repeatedly to see him but is rebuked by
Miss Bingley from even letting Bingley know she is in London and she
slowly begins to accept the rejection.
Elizabeth goes to visit Mr. Collins and her friend Charlotte,
recently married and there runs into Darcy again. He proposes marriage
to her, but she flatly refuses, citing his treatment of Jane and
Wickham. He however, gives her a letter explaining that Wickham had
lied and that Jane had seemed largely disinterested by Bingley so he
warned against the match. Elizabeth begins to believe him, but he has
already left for London again. She returns home afterwards to find that
her sister Lydia has been invited to Brighton to stay with a Colonel
and the moving army regiment, which she advises her father against
allowing. She however, leaves anyways. After a planned vacation to the lake country is cut short,
Elizabeth spends a summer vacation with the Gardiners in Pemberley
instead where she once again runs into Darcy. She also meets his sister
who is quite nice and finds that Darcy himself is much more agreeable
than before. Most of the bad traits she had disliked before seem to
have vanished.
She is however called back home quickly when it is revealed
that Lydia has run off with Wickham. She returns home while her father
and Mr. Gardiner search for the two in London.
It''s revealed that Darcy actually finds them
eventually and helps to pay the dowry for Wickham e Lydia in
marriage, an act that impresses Elizabeth greatly.
Bingley reappears in Netherfield Park for a short while and
resumes courting Jane, while Lady de Bourgh arrives and acts rudely
towards the Bennet family, warning Elizabeth against marrying Darcy, as
her daughter is supposed to marry him. A few days later Darcy returns
himself and reproposes to Elizabeth to which she now accepts. Jane and
Bingley are also engaged shortly before
Elizabeth''s engagement. The two are married on the same day and Mrs. Bennet is
ecstatic. Bingley and Jane move to Derbyshire after a year and
Elizabeth and Darcy live together in Pemberley with often visits from
many of her friends. The novel ends with everyone trying to get along
after so many insults and poor relations.