This story was set in a place called Longbourn, England sometime during the Napoleonic War. I believe that the main conflict in this book is not exactly between two people, however there are issues of concern regarding the loss of self-sovereignty, snobbery and the English class struggle. In my opinion the climax was when Mr. Darcy proposed Elizabeth. The protagonist is a girl named Elizabeth Bennet. Elizabeth is intelligent and clever. It doesn't state how old she is, but it is clear that she is old enough to get married. The antagonist is a lady by the name of Lady Catherine De Bourgh. Lady Catherine is rich and very bossy. She one of the people that acknowledges enforces the class society and tries to keep Elizabeth from marrying her honourable nephew. The genre of this book is part romance part historical fiction.
             Jane Austen was born Steventon, Hampshire in 1775. Jane Austin also wrote such books as Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Emma. Jane had always believed that she was going to be a writer, by the time she was 21 she had already finished the manuscript to Pride and Prejudice. Jane wrote many of her books during the Napoleonic War. She was only known as a writer among her family because she kept it secret. In the late 1800's and early 1900's women writers were not acknowledged as actual writers but as mere women, and she prevailed for it by using and anonymous . She uses a lot of her past experiences and feelings in her books, which I think really distinguishes her as an elite writer of the 19th century. Jane Austen died in 1817.
             This novel (Pride and Prejudice) was very well written. Although I tend to shy away from books which are not fantasy, this novel showed me what a well written and challenging novel should be like. I have to admit the English was a little bit past my vocabulary I was able to follow along, because I past the 5 word test. The novel is a
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