Orgullo Y Prejuicio En Ingles

Author: Jane Austen
Publishing house: Oxford Bookworms Library
Difficulty: Easy

I started the reading: Sunday, 28/10/2012
I finished: Saturday, 03/11/2012

Literary gender: Romantic novel

CHARACTERS
Main characters:
- Elizabeth Bennet: the second daughter from Bennet family. Beautiful, intelligent, with common sense, charming. She’s also called Lizzy.
- Jane Bennet: the elderdaughter from Bennet family. Extremely beautiful, charming, responsible.
- Mr Darcy: a handsome, proud, tall, rich and young man. Friend of Mr Bingley.
- Mr Bingley: a handsome, charming, rich and young man. Friend of Mr Darcy.
- The Bennet family: composed by Mrs Bennet, an enthusiastic and foolish woman, Mr Bennet, a serious and intelligent man, and their 5 daughters: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary (veryintelligent) Kitty and Lydia (extremely foolish).
- Mr Collins: cousin of the Bennet family. He’s a priest.
- Charlotte Lucas: a good friend of Elizabeth.
- Mr and Mrs Gardiner: uncles of the Bennet’s girls. A sensible and charming couple.
- Mr Wickham: a handsome, charming but evil man. An ancient friend of Mr Darcy.
Secondary characters:
- The Lucas family: composed by Charlotte, Mr and MrsLucas and her little daughter, Maria.
- Mr and Mrs Philips: uncles of the Bennet’s girls.
- Miss Caroline Bingley: the younger sister of Mr Bingley. She’s really proud.
- Miss Georgiana Darcy: the younger sister of Mr Darcy. She’s a beautiful, intelligent, shy girl.
- Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Mr Darcy’s aunt. A proud, rich, old women.

My favourite character: I’ve really liked three of themain characters: Jane Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, but my favourite one is Mr Darcy.
Why?: At first he was a completely idiot, proud, cold,he underestimated everyone, but, as the story goes on, he shows that is not at all like that, actually he’s kind, generous, that he has feelings. I also think that I like him because, as I read the book, he has made me fall in love in the same waythat he has done it with Elizabeth.

Places in which the action happens: The action takes place in Great Britain, but specially at Longbourn house and Netherfield park, in Merytown, in London, in Derbyshire, in Rosings park and in Pemberley.

Time in which the action takes place: At the beginning of 19th century.

SUMMARY:
Starting: The Bennet family is a family that has 5 daughters, and themother, Mrs Bennet, wants to marry them. Then, a handsome, rich, young man, Mr Bingley, moves near their house, with his younger sister and a friend, Mr Darcy, a handsome and very rich man.
The mother is really anxious because she wants to marry one of her daughters with Mr Bingley, so she makes everything to make Mr Bingley know her daughters. Is then when, in a dance, Jane, the elder daughter,and Mr Bingley connect very well one with each other, so Mrs Bennet makes Jane go to Netherfield to have dinner there with Mr Bingley, but, due to the rain during the walk to get there, Jane gets ill, so she has to rest there for a few days. Lizzy, the second daughter, decides to go to take care of her elder sister, so she also spends a few days in Netherfield, where she notices how Mr Darcyreally is. When they get back to home, their parents say them that Mr Collins, their cousin, who would inherit all the goods of the family at Mr Bennet’s death, would go to make them a visit.
Plot: Is in that visit when he decides to make a proposal of marriage to Elizabeth to make amends because of the inheritance, but Lizzy rejects him.
One day, the Bennet girls decide to go to Merytown, thevillage where their uncles, Mr and Mrs Philips lived, to make them a visit. There, they coincide with a group of officers, where is Mr Wickham, a handsome, charming and young man that gets well with Elisabeth at the moment. But then, they also coincide with Mr Bingley and Mr Darcy, who avoids Mr Wickham in the same way that Mr Wickham avoids him. There, Elizabeth starts to suspect that they know each...