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Pride and Prejudice

Everyone reads everyone else. And almost everyone gets it wrong. Two hundred years of the most widely read misunderstandings.

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1. A Single Man of Good Fortune

First Impressions 1, A Man No One Has Met

9 min read
- first impressions
- rumor
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2. Tolerable, But Not Handsome Enough

First Impressions 2, A Verdict Closed in One Sentence

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- first impressions
- reputation
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3. The One Who Smiles and the One Who Does Not

First Impressions 3, An Eye That Finds No Fault

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- first impressions
- judgment
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4. He Was Watching

First Impressions 4, An Evening Nobody Read

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- first impressions
- feeling
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5. The One Who Rode Through the Rain

First Impressions 5, Six Inches of Mud

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- first impressions
- class
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6. The Man Who Measures People

First Impressions 6, The Boast Called Modesty

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- first impressions
- pride
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7. Beginning to Be Careful

First Impressions 7, The Man Who Stepped Back

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- first impressions
- pride
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8. A Letter and an Entail

What We Want to Hear 1, The Man with the Olive Branch

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- inheritance
- flattery
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9. The Man Who Came to Choose a Bride

What We Want to Hear 2, While She Stirred the Fire

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- marriage
- calculation
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10. The One Who Believed the Officer

What We Want to Hear 3, When a Welcome Story Becomes Evidence

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- belief
- testimony
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11. Believing the Pleasanter Side

What We Want to Hear 4, Somebody Has to Be in the Wrong

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- judgment
- sisters
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12. The Ball at Netherfield

What We Want to Hear 5, A Family That Cannot See Itself

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- ball
- appearances
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13. A Refusal He Could Not Hear

What We Want to Hear 6, A Refusal Read as Modesty

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- proposal
- custom
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14. Netherfield Is Empty

What We Want to Hear 7, A Letter Read as Kindness

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- letters
- misreading
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15. Charlotte's Reckoning

Three Choices 1, Only a Comfortable Home

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- choice
- marriage
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16. Losing a Friend

Three Choices 2, Measuring a Friend by My Own Rule

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- friendship
- principle
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17. The One Who Says Less

Three Choices 3, An Error of Fancy

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- disappointment
- endurance
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18. Jane Goes to Town

Three Choices 4, Gracechurch Street

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- class
- family
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19. Where Wickham Went

Three Choices 5, After the Warning

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- warning
- judgment
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20. Where Avarice Begins

Three Choices 6, Rocks and Mountains

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- travel
- questions
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21. The Art of Keeping House

Letters 1, The Back Room

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- housekeeping
- choice
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22. The Lady of Rosings

Letters 2, A Very Decided Opinion

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- rank
- judgment
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23. The Man Who Keeps Calling

Letters 3, Fifty Miles of Good Road

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- distance
- reading
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24. What the Colonel Let Slip

Letters 4, A Most Imprudent Marriage

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- speech
- judgement
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25. The First Proposal

Letters 5, In Vain Have I Struggled

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- proposal
- pride
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26. Be Not Alarmed, Madam

Letters 6, Two Charges

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- explanation
- reading
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27. I Never Knew Myself

Letters 7, The Second Reading

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- turning point
- self knowledge
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28. Leaving Hunsford

Pemberley 1, The Tumult of Her Mind

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- secrecy
- family
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29. Told in Halves

Pemberley 2, An Expression of Goodness

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- secrecy
- kindness
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30. Sending Her to Brighton

Pemberley 3, No Peace at Longbourn

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- parents
- neglect
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31. Their Parents' Marriage

Pemberley 4, Respect and Esteem

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- marriage
- first impressions
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32. Pemberley

Pemberley 5, Since He Was Four

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- testimony
- where he lives
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33. Who Has Changed

Pemberley 6, Only Exceedingly Shy

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- first impressions
- change
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34. Two Letters

Pemberley 7, Afraid of Doing Too Much

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- news
- self reproach
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35. A House That Blames

Rereading 1, My Own Doing

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- blame
- one's own share
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36. The News That They Are Found

Rereading 2, How Much My Uncle Laid Down

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- arithmetic
- relief
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37. What the Letter Said

Rereading 3, Borrowed Feathers

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- testimony
- which way it leans
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38. The One Who Brings Him Back

Rereading 4, The Most Reasonable End

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- undoing
- starting again
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39. Lady Catherine Descends

Rereading 5, A Gentleman's Daughter

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- rank
- refusal
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40. The Second Proposal

Rereading 6, One Word From You

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- proposal
- rereading

Pride and Prejudice

1. A Single Man of Good Fortune

2. Tolerable, But Not Handsome Enough

3. The One Who Smiles and the One Who Does Not

4. He Was Watching

5. The One Who Rode Through the Rain

6. The Man Who Measures People

7. Beginning to Be Careful

8. A Letter and an Entail

9. The Man Who Came to Choose a Bride

10. The One Who Believed the Officer

11. Believing the Pleasanter Side

12. The Ball at Netherfield

13. A Refusal He Could Not Hear

14. Netherfield Is Empty

15. Charlotte's Reckoning

16. Losing a Friend

17. The One Who Says Less

18. Jane Goes to Town

19. Where Wickham Went

20. Where Avarice Begins

21. The Art of Keeping House

22. The Lady of Rosings

23. The Man Who Keeps Calling

24. What the Colonel Let Slip

25. The First Proposal

26. Be Not Alarmed, Madam

27. I Never Knew Myself

28. Leaving Hunsford

29. Told in Halves

30. Sending Her to Brighton

31. Their Parents' Marriage

32. Pemberley

33. Who Has Changed

34. Two Letters

35. A House That Blames

36. The News That They Are Found

37. What the Letter Said

38. The One Who Brings Him Back

39. Lady Catherine Descends

40. The Second Proposal