Book SummaryPride
and Prejudicefirst chapter
The news
that a wealthy young gentleman named Charles Bingley has rented the manor known
as Netherfield Park causes a great stir in the neighboring village of
Longbourn, especially in the Bennet household. The Bennets have five unmarried
daughters, and Mrs. Bennet, a foolish and fussy gossip, is the sort who agrees
with the novel’s opening words: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a
single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” She
sees Bingley’s arrival as an opportunity for one of the girls to obtain a
wealthy spouse, and she therefore insists that her husband call on the new
arrival immediately. Mr. Bennet torments his family by pretending to have no
interest in doing so, but he eventually meets with Mr. Bingley without their
knowing. When he reveals to Mrs. Bennet and his daughters that he has made
their new neighbor’s acquaintance, they are overjoyed and excited.
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