Rediscover Puffin Classics – bringing the best-loved stories to a new generation. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet live with their five daughters. Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich Batchelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the second daughter, Elizabeth, but a bad account of him is given to Elizabeth. He and Bingley’s affect the separation of Bingley and Jane. When Elizabeth travels north she is invited with friends to Darcy’s place in Derbyshire, and thinking Darcy is absent she goes. However, he is there and she is surprised by his much-improved manners. She hears news that her sister Lydia has eloped with Wickham, an unprincipled adventurer.