Pride and
Prejudice
A Novel in Three Volumes
Both were wrong about each other. Both were right, in the end. Neither knew themselves.
First chapter free on launch day
About the Book
Elizabeth Bennet is quick-witted, clear-eyed, and wrong about almost everyone who matters. Fitzwilliam Darcy is proud, correct, and capable of saying something unforgivable at a public ball. Their first impressions of each other are catastrophically accurate in the wrong direction.
What follows is not a love story about two people finding each other. It is a study in how certainty distorts judgment, how a witty mind can be its own worst enemy, and what it costs to say: till this moment I never knew myself.
Jane Austen began it as a comedy of manners. She finished it as something harder and more honest.
The Cast
Seven lives caught in the machinery of first impressions
Elizabeth Bennet
The Heroine
Second of five sisters, the sharpest intelligence in the room, and the one who will spend most of the novel being certain she is right.
Fitzwilliam Darcy
The Proud One
Ten thousand a year, Pemberley in Derbyshire, and the social manner of a man who finds most people beneath his notice. He will have to earn the reversal.
Jane Bennet
The Good One
Eldest sister, beautiful, incapable of thinking ill of anyone. A patience tested by Bingley’s sudden absence and Miss Bingley’s cold courtesy in London.
Charles Bingley
The Amiable One
Darcy’s good-natured friend, quick to love and slow to resist the advice of those around him. His feelings for Jane are real; his will is the problem.
George Wickham
The Plausible One
Militia officer, charming in company, with a grievance against Darcy that every woman in Meryton is delighted to believe. The charm is the whole mechanism.
Mr. Bennet
The Ironic One
Master of Longbourn, father of five daughters, and the funniest man in the novel. His wit and his detachment share the same root, and both have consequences.
Charlotte Lucas
The Pragmatic One
Elizabeth’s closest friend, twenty-seven, and the character who makes the decision the novel frames as both understandable and sorrowful. She knows exactly what she is doing.
Launch Trailer
Trailer in production
A sixty-second film built from Austen’s text: the sparring, the letter, the reversal at Pemberley. No costume-drama soft focus.
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