Novel · 1813
Novel · 1813 · English · Romantic
Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet mistakes pride for contempt and wit for insight, and is corrected by a letter.
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Austen's free indirect style lets us live inside a judgement and watch it fail. The plot is a re-reading: the same events, understood correctly the second time.
Selected section overview
These are selected acts, parts or episodes, not a complete chapter list. Summaries contain spoilers; descriptive headings are editorial.
Volume IMeryton and Netherfield
Assemblies, first impressions, Darcy's insult and Collins's proposal. Every scene is a market with manners.
Volume IIHunsford and the letter
Darcy's disastrous proposal and the letter that rewrites the novel. Elizabeth: 'Till this moment I never knew myself.'
Volume IIIPemberley and Lydia
The estate as revealed character; Wickham's elopement; a second proposal earned rather than assumed.
