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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen (1775–1817)

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  • 62 chapters
  • Reading level: 8th & 9th grade

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen is a novel published in 1813. It follows Elizabeth Bennet, who must learn to see past first impressions and hasty judgments. With five daughters and an estate that can only pass to male heirs, the Bennet family faces financial pressure to marry well. When wealthy Mr. Darcy arrives in their countryside neighborhood, his pride and Elizabeth's prejudice set the stage for misunderstandings, hidden truths, and unexpected revelations about character and love.

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  • England
  • Young women
  • Love stories
  • Sisters
  • Domestic fiction
  • Courtship
  • Social classes

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Chapter I

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

“My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day, “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?”

Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.

“But it is,” returned she; “for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.”

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Contents

Show all 62 chapters
  1. Preface
  2. Chapter I
  3. Chapter II
  4. Chapter III
  5. Chapter IV
  6. Chapter V
  7. Chapter VI
  8. Chapter VII
  9. Chapter VIII
  10. Chapter IX
  11. Chapter X
  12. Chapter XI
  13. Chapter XII
  14. Chapter XIII
  15. Chapter XIV
  16. Chapter XV
  17. Chapter XVI
  18. Chapter XVII
  19. Chapter XVIII
  20. Chapter XIX
  21. Chapter XX
  22. Chapter XXI
  23. Chapter XXII
  24. Chapter XXIII
  25. Chapter XXIV
  26. Chapter XXV
  27. Chapter XXVI
  28. Chapter XXVII
  29. Chapter XXVIII
  30. Chapter XXIX
  31. Chapter XXX
  32. Chapter XXXI
  33. Chapter XXXII
  34. Chapter XXXIII
  35. Chapter XXXIV
  36. Chapter XXXV
  37. Chapter XXXVI
  38. Chapter XXXVII
  39. Chapter XXXVIII
  40. Chapter XXXIX
  41. Chapter XL
  42. Chapter XLI
  43. Chapter XLII
  44. Chapter XLIII
  45. Chapter XLIV
  46. Chapter XLV
  47. Chapter XLVI
  48. Chapter XLVII
  49. Chapter XLVIII
  50. Chapter XLIX
  51. Chapter L
  52. Chapter LI
  53. Chapter LII
  54. Chapter LIII
  55. Chapter LIV
  56. Chapter LV
  57. Chapter LVI
  58. Chapter LVII
  59. Chapter LVIII
  60. Chapter LIX
  61. Chapter LX
  62. Chapter LXI

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This free edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #1342, released 1998-06-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Romance, Novels, Classics of Literature, British Literature.

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