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Book report of Pride and prejudicePride and prejudice is a famous novel throughout the world. The author of Pride and Prejudice is a British novelist, Jane Austin. Austin was born in a mid-class family. Her father was a local vicar. Although her family was not very rich, her father attached great importance to her education. Influenced by her father, Jane read many literary works when she was young. Jane was unmarried all her life and her novels did not earned her great fames when she was alive. After her death in 1817, Jane’s novel became popular across the world.Jane Austin was known for her excellent writing skills of narrating the country love stories since she lived in a small country town all her life. Her other novels Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma were all about the marriage and love between gentleman and ladies in countryside. Austin authentically and intimately describes the quiet, day-to-day country life of the upper-middle-class English. The novel is named Pride and Prejudice because the principal male character Mr. Darcy was pride at first and the principal female character Elizabeth had prejudice against Mr. Darcy. Elizabeth first met Mr. Darcy at an assembly. Soon Mr. Darcy fell in love with Elizabeth but Elizabeth disliked Mr. Darcy because of his haughtiness. When Elizabeth met Mr. Wickham who was Darcy’s childhood playmate, she was told that Mr. Darcy treated Wickham badly. Later Elizabeth discovered that Darcy urged his friend Mr. Bingley to leave her sister Jane. Elizabeth prejudiced against Darcy deeper and deeper. As a result when Mr. Darcy proposed to Elizabeth, she refused directly. Mr. Darcy wrote a letter to Elizabeth in order to explain his relationship with Wickham. From then on, both of them have changed their attitudes and the misunderstandings gradually eliminated. When Mr. Darcy saved her little sister Lydia and her family’s reputation, Elizabeth lost her heart to Mr. Darcy. Darcy’s aunt Lady Catherine is a domineering wo