Pride & Prejudice

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Austen’s comedy of first impressions, money and misjudged character.

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Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy must reconsider their judgments of each other amid family pressures, social expectations, and questions of marriage and money.

By Jane Austen

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Elizabeth Bennet is the second of five sisters in a family whose estate will pass to a male cousin. When the wealthy Mr Bingley takes a nearby house and brings his friend Darcy with him, Elizabeth forms a quick opinion of Darcy that takes the rest of the novel to revise.

Austen writes about marriage as an economic arrangement as much as a romantic one, and gives Elizabeth the rare freedom to refuse a secure offer. The comedy is in the dialogue; the substance is in what each character can and cannot afford to want.

How Austen separates a first impression from a judgement, and what it costs Elizabeth to tell them apart.
Why marriage in this world is a financial decision, and how entailment puts the Bennet sisters under pressure.
What Charlotte Lucas’s choice shows about the options open to a woman without money.
How Darcy’s letter reframes events the reader has already seen, and why the technique still feels modern.
The difference between Wickham’s charm and Darcy’s reserve as evidence of character.
Why Austen gives her sharpest comedy to Mr Collins and Lady Catherine, and what that satire is aimed at.

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Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Lexicon Publishing
Language: English
Format: Paperback

Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist known for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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