Pride and Prejudice (edit title)

Pattigr edited the characters of Pride and Prejudice 4 days ago.

• Edited the description of Elizabeth Bennet: The favorite of the sisters for me. Smart and funny!
• Edited the description of Fitzwilliam Darcy: The ultimate main man - especially in the last pride and prejudice movie with McFaden

Shelfari edited the description of Pride and Prejudice 3 weeks ago.

• Here is quite simply the most handsome edition of one of the finest and most popular novels of all time. It features an elegant cloth binding, attractive full-color dust wrapper, handsome typography, and more than 100 delightful illustrations (plus 61 witty illustrated initial letters at chapter openings) by famed English Victorian artist Hugh Thomson.

Kirsten A edited the quotations of Pride and Prejudice Monday, November 23 2009.

• Marked “I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but no one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.” as a spoiler.

Timothy Gray approved 96% of Pequeño saltamontes’s request to combine 56 books, including Pride and Prejudice, Sunday, November 22 2009. (show what wasn’t approved) (hide what wasn’t approved)

Pequeño saltamontes submitted a request to combine 189 books, including Pride and Prejudice, Saturday, November 21 2009.

LaserWraith edited the description of Pride and Prejudice Monday, November 16 2009.

• HerePride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is quite simplyone of the best-loved and most handsome editionenduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of these—the haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy—irks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. She annoys him. Which is how we know they must one day marry. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy is a splendid rendition of civilized sparring. As the finestcharacters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and most popular novels of all time. It features an elegant cloth binding, attractive full-color dust wrapper, handsome typography,intrigue, Jane Austen's radiantly caustic wit and more than 100 delightful illustrations (plus 61 witty illustrated initial letters at chapter openings) by famed English Victorian artist Hugh Thomson.keen observation sparkle.

LaserWraith edited the summary of Pride and Prejudice Monday, November 16 2009.

• Summary
  Beginning:
  InThe news that a wealthy young gentleman named Charles Bingley has rented the manor of Netherfield Park causes a great stir in the beginning we learnnearby village of Miss Elizabeth Bennet, she isLongbourn, especially in the 2ndBennet household. The Bennets have five unmarried daughters—from oldest girl. She has 5 sistersto youngest, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and no brothers. She firsts goesLydia—and Mrs. Bennet is desperate to see them all married. After Mr. Bennet pays a social visit to Mr. Bingley, the Bennets attend a ball where Mr.Bingleyat which Mr. Bingley is present. He is a new ownertaken with Jane and spends much of Netherfield,the evening dancing with her. His close friend, Mr. Darcy, is less pleased with the evening and all the girls wanthaughtily refuses to dance with him. WithElizabeth, which makes everyone view him as arrogant and obnoxious.

  At social functions over subsequent weeks, however, Mr. Darcy finds himself increasingly attracted to Elizabeth’s charm and intelligence. Jane’s friendship with Mr. Bingley also continues to burgeon, and Jane pays a visit to the Bingley mansion. On her journey to the house she is caught in a very rude man name Mr.Darcy.
  
  Middle:
  downpour and catches ill, forcing her to stay at Netherfield for several days. In order to tend to Jane, Elizabeth hikes through muddy fields and arrives with a spattered dress, much to the middle, we fin out that Mr.Darcy like Elizabeth. Also that Mr.Bingley leaves Loungbourn becausedisdain of his evilthe snobbish Miss Bingley, Charles Bingley’s sister. Miss Bingley want her brotherBingley’s spite only increases when she notices that Darcy, whom she is pursuing, pays quite a bit of attention to marry Miss Darcy. So whileElizabeth.

  When Elizabeth and Jane return home, they find Mr. Collins visiting their household. Mr. Collins is hurta young clergyman who stands to inherit Mr. Bennet’s property, which has been “entailed,” meaning that it can only be passed down to male heirs. Mr. Collins is a pompous fool, though he is quite enthralled by this,the Bennet girls. Shortly after his arrival, he makes a proposal of marriage to Elizabeth. She turns him down, wounding his pride. Meanwhile, the Bennet girls have become friendly with militia officers stationed in a nearby town. Among them is Wickham, a handsome young soldier who is friendly toward Elizabeth is tryingand tells her how Darcy cruelly cheated him out of an inheritance.

  At the beginning of winter, the Bingleys and Darcy leave Netherfield and return to figure out whatLondon, much to doJane’s dismay. A further shock arrives with Mr.Darcy
  
  End:
  Inthe news that Mr. Collins has become engaged to Charlotte Lucas, Elizabeth’s best friend and the end we meetpoor daughter of a character named Mr. Whickham, helocal knight. Charlotte explains to Elizabeth that she is Mr.Darcy very good friend.getting older and needs the match for financial reasons. Charlotte and Mr. Whickham father wasCollins get married and Elizabeth promises to visit them at their new home. As winter progresses, Jane visits the late Mr.Darcy bestest friend,city to see friends (hoping also that she might see Mr. Bingley). However, Miss Bingley visits her and when he pastaway, he took Mr.Whickham son under his wingbehaves rudely, while Mr. Bingley fails to raise. And whenvisit her at all. The marriage prospects for the Bennet girls appear bleak.

  That spring, Elizabeth nexts talk tovisits Charlotte, who now lives near the home of Mr. Collins’s patron, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, who is also Darcy’s aunt. Darcy calls on Lady Catherine and encounters Elizabeth, whose presence leads him to make a number of visits to the Collins’s home, where she is staying. One day, he makes a shocking proposal of marriage, which Elizabeth quickly refuses. She tells Darcy that she considers him arrogant and unpleasant, then scolds him for steering Bingley away from Jane and disinheriting Wickham. Darcy leaves her but shortly thereafter delivers a storyletter to her. In this letter, he admits that he urged Bingley to distance himself from Jane, but claims he did so only because he thought their romance was not serious. As for Wickham, he informs Elizabeth that the young officer is a liar and that the real cause of their disagreement was Wickham’s attempt to elope with his young sister, Georgiana Darcy.

  This letter causes Elizabeth to reevaluate her feelings about Darcy. She returns home and acts coldly toward Wickham. The militia is leaving town, which makes the younger, rather man-crazy Bennet girls distraught. Lydia manages to obtain permission from her father to spend the summer with an old colonel in Brighton, where Wickham’s regiment will be stationed. With the arrival of June, Elizabeth goes on another journey, this time with the Gardiners, who are relatives of the Bennets. The trip takes her to the North and eventually to the neighborhood of them growing upPemberley, Darcy’s estate. She visits Pemberley, after making sure that Darcy is away, and delights in the building and howgrounds, while hearing from Darcy’s servants that he is a very rude,wonderful, generous master. Suddenly, Darcy arrives and behaves cordially toward her. Making no mention of his proposal, he entertains the Gardiners and invites Elizabeth to meet his sister.

  Shortly thereafter, however, a letter arrives from home, telling Elizabeth that Lydia has eloped with Wickham and mean man. Before this talk she thought wellthat the couple is nowhere to be found, which suggests that they may be living together out of wedlock. Fearful of the disgrace such a situation would bring on her entire family, Elizabeth hastens home. Mr. Whickham, after she did'nt wantGardiner and Mr. Bennet go off to search for Lydia, but Mr. Bennet eventually returns home empty-handed. Just when all hope seems lost, a letter comes from Mr. Gardiner saying that the couple has been found and that Wickham has agreed to go near him.marry Lydia in exchange for an annual income. The Bennets are convinced that Mr. Gardiner has paid off Wickham, but Elizabeth learns that the source of the money, and of her family’s salvation, was none other than Darcy.

  Now I am reading the partmarried, Wickham and Lydia return to Longbourn briefly, where Mr. Whickham enlopesBennet treats them coldly. They then depart for Wickham’s new assignment in the North of England. Shortly thereafter, Bingley returns to Netherfield and resumes his courtship of Jane. Darcy goes to stay with him and pays visits to the 3rd eldest daughter, Lydia.Bennets but makes no mention of his desire to marry Elizabeth. Bingley, on the other hand, presses his suit and proposes to Jane, to the delight of everyone but Bingley’s haughty sister. While the family celebrates, Lady Catherine de Bourgh pays a visit to Longbourn. She corners Elizabeth and says that she has heard that Darcy, her nephew, is planning to marry her. Since she considers a Bennet an unsuitable match for a Darcy, Lady Catherine demands that Elizabeth promise to refuse him. Elizabeth spiritedly refuses, saying she is not engaged to Darcy, but she will not promise anything against her own happiness. A little later, Elizabeth and Darcy go out walking together and he tells her that his feelings have not altered since the spring. She tenderly accepts his proposal, and both Jane and Elizabeth are married.

Timothy Gray edited the awards of Pride and Prejudice Monday, November 16 2009.

• Added an award: UK's Best-Loved Books
• Added year of an award: UK's Best-Loved Books 2003
• Added ranking of an award: UK's Best-Loved Books 2

Timothy Gray edited the first sentence of Pride and Prejudice Monday, November 16 2009.

• ITIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.