Emma and Pride & Prejudice

Book Summary of W:omnibus:jane Austen:2-in-1 Emma/pride In the satiric love story Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen portrays her heroine Lydia Bennet as an intelligent and spiritedly free-wheeling young women, attracted to a proud and wealthy man against whom she is intensely prejudiced from the very beginning of their association. Austen's colourful characters living in a small English Country village are life-like the cynic Mr. Collins et al. Whilst Austen's abhorrence is reserved for the un ? ladylike conduct of one women, or the blockheaded oafishness of another character, she heaps accolades on the very British proclivity towards decent deportment & good common sense. Highly acclaimed pride & prejudice is in remarkable contrast with typically violent thrillers or extremely sentimental novels of her era.