Although Elizabeth Bennet once refused her father’s heir, she reconsiders when her elder sister—despondent from heartbreak—contemplates marriage to him. Confident that Mr. Bingley will return to Netherfield and confess his love for Jane, Elizabeth accepts Mr. Collins' offer of matrimony. When Fitzwilliam Darcy visits his aunt’s estate months later, his heart breaks at learning Elizabeth is now Mrs. Collins, and due to his selfishness. As Darcy determines to right his wrongs, a fever breaks out in London, forever altering his relationship with Elizabeth. In Mr. Darcy’s Kindness, misunderstandings and pride lead to more regret and heartache than Jane Austen’s original, but love always finds a way

A Pride and Preudice Novella Although Elizabeth Bennet once refused her father's heir, she reconsiders when her elder sister-despondent from heartbreak-contemplates marriage to him. Confident that Mr. Bingley will return to Netherfield and confess his love for Jane, Elizabeth accepts Mr. Collins' offer of matrimony. When Fitzwilliam Darcy visits his aunt's estate months later, his heart breaks at learning Elizabeth is now Mrs. Collins, and due to his selfishness. As Darcy determines to right his wrongs, a fever breaks out in London, forever altering his relationship with Elizabeth. In Mr. Darcy's Kindness, misunderstandings and pride lead to more regret and heartache than Jane Austen's original, but love always finds a way.

With gentlemen scarce at the Meryton assembly, Elizabeth Bennet means to scold the man in the shadows who refuses to dance. But when he comes into the light, she sees his horribly scarred face and his limp. Fitzwilliam Darcy survived a tragic carriage accident that claimed the life of his sister, and by all accounts of those who knew him, he is much changed. Now, he is a beast of a man, often in a bad temper, owing the pain he still suffers from the injuries he incurred. Elizabeth pities the man until he kisses her in the middle of the dance floor at the Netherfield Ball with everyone looking on. He’s trapped her in a marriage that is not of her choosing, and now she must travel with him to the isolated estate of Pemberley. Mr. Darcy knows what he’s done is monstrous. But there are monstrous things within him now. He doesn’t know what has possessed him to trespass against this beauty that will now be his wife. He knows he is beyond any hope. And yet… she stirs things within him. He will not let her go. This first book in the Happily Ever Collection unites Beauty and the Beast and Pride and Prejudice. Though each story in the collection takes its cue from a fairy tale, there are neither magic nor otherworldly elements in the stories.

Elizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: Elizabeth forms a prejudice against the proud and distant Mr. Darcy; Darcy's charming friend Charles Bingley falls in love with her sister Jane; and the handsome officer George Wickham forms attachments successively to Elizabeth and to her sister Lydia. Irvine's extensive introduction sets the novel in the context of the literary and intellectual history of the period, and deals with such crucial background issues as early-nineteenth century class relations in Britain, and female exclusion from property and power. The appendices present an unrivaled selection of background contextual documents.

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This is not at all the start to her marriage that Elizabeth Bennet Darcy had in mind… After his first wife, Anne de Bourgh, is lost at sea only months after their marriage, Fitzwilliam Darcy is at last allowed to marry for love. Elizabeth Bennet is everything he ever wished for: intelligent, kind, and clever times two. Despite their rocky first meeting, Elizabeth feels the same about Darcy, and her arrival at Pemberley is a breath of fresh air for all who live there… Especially after their brief and unpleasant time spent in the company of Anne de Bourgh. But after only six blissful months as husband and wife, a knock on their door one warm summer afternoon throws not only the household into chaos, but the Darcys’ marriage. Will the surprise arrival ruin everything Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam have built for themselves? The Second Mrs. Darcy is a Pride and Prejudice variation full of comedic surprises and misunderstandings, with a guaranteed happy ending!

When Elizabeth Bennet first knew Mr. Darcy, she despised him and was sure he felt the same. Angered by his pride and reserve, influenced by the lies of the charming Mr. Wickham, she never troubled herself to believe he was anything other than the worst of men—until, one day, he unexpectedly proposed. Mr. Darcy’s passionate avowal of love causes Elizabeth to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about him. What she knows is that he is rich, handsome, clever, and very much in love with her. She, on the other hand, is poor, and can expect a future of increasing poverty if she does not marry. The incentives for her to accept him are strong, but she is honest enough to tell him that she does not return his affections. He says he can accept that—but will either of them ever be truly happy in a relationship of unequal affection? Diverging from Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice at the proposal in the Hunsford parsonage, this story explores the kind of man Darcy is, even before his “proper humbling,” and how such a man, so full of pride, so much in love, might have behaved had Elizabeth chosen to accept his original proposal.

The Pride of Jane Austen! The story is set in England in the late 18th century. Charles Bingley, a wealthy and charismatic single man, moves to the Netherfield estate, and when he does, the residents there are very thrilled. Especially thrilled is Mrs. Bennet. Why? Because she wants to marry one her five daughters to him, as her husband is a bookish man and somewhat neglectful of his responsibilities. At a local ball, the daughters are impressed by his friendly disposition and down-to-earth demeanor...and they are less impressed by his friend Fitzwilliam Darcy, who is conceited and refuses to dance with the charming second daughter Elizabeth of Mrs. Bennet. The story moves with all the charming qualities of a masterclass novel and it revolves around Elizabeth Bennet, the second daughter. The Five Daughters: Jane Bennet, the eldest daughter, is distinguished by her kindness and beauty; Elizabeth Bennet shares her father''s keen wit and occasionally sarcastic outlook; Mary is studious, devout and musical albeit lacking in taste; Catherine, sometimes called Kitty, the fourth sister, follows where her younger sister leads while Lydia is flirtatious and lacks maturity. Bingley and the oldest Bennet daughter, Jane, soon become close, but face opposition from Miss. Caroline Bingley, Bingley''s sister. Meanwhile, Bingley''s friend Darcy is, surprisingly, attracted to Elizabeth, though he objects to her family. Elizabeth is instead attracted to George Wickham, a handsome and personable militia officer, who tells her that Darcy disobeyed his father''s bequest of a clergyman''s revenue to Wickham out of selfish resentment. Wickham''s tale makes Darcy appear not only proud but cruel, and Elizabeth accepts Wickham''s account without question, disliking Darcy even more because of it. But, is it true? While all this is happening, the Bennet family is visited by Mr. Bennet''s cousin, William Collins, a clergyman who will inherit Mr. Bennet''s estate when he dies because of a legal stricture known as an entail. That story unfolds on its own when William Collins marries Elizabeth''s friend Charlotte Lucas, after he is rejected by Elizabeth. Then, Jane is dismayed to learn that Bingley and the entire Netherfield party have unexpectedly left for London. Then the story follows Elizabeth, to make things right for her sister and everyone, meeting with Lady Catherine De Bourgh, Darcy''s aunt, then her encounters and talks with Darcy, etc. At one point Elizabeth learns that Darcy, while proud, is innocent of wrongdoing, leaving Elizabeth mortified at her discovery of how her own pride prejudiced her against Darcy. She then visits Darcy''s estate, and now she falls in love with him, as he is so gracious and treats Elizabeth and her aunt and uncle. Now, with this promising situation, Lydia, the last daughter, elopes and gets married to Wickham! Elizabeth then discovers that Darcy was instrumental in orchestrating the marriage, thereby saving the reputation and marriageability of the other Bennet daughters. Bingley returns to Netherfield and soon asks Jane to marry him. Jane, of course, accepts. The same for Elizabeth and Darcy. Darcy renews his proposal of marriage to Elizabeth and is promptly accepted. The novel closes with a "happily-ever-after" chapter. Facts and Trivia 1. Pride and Prejudice has been a screaming success of a book among people world over for many decades, continuing near the top of lists of "most loved books." 2. It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature, selling over 20 million copies. 3. A publisher rejected the novel without even reading it. 4. Pride and prejudice has been adapted hundreds of times. Scroll Up and Grab Your Copy!

Starting from the botanical crazes inspired by Linnaeus in the eighteenth century, and exploring the variations it spawned--natural history, landscape architecture, polemical battles over botany's prurience--this study offers a fresh, detailed reading of the courtship novel from Jane Austen to George Eliot and Henry James. By reanimating a cultural understanding of botany and sexuality that we have lost, it provides an entirely new and powerful account of the novel's role in scripting sexualized courtship, and illuminates how the novel and popular science together created a cultural figure, the blooming girl, that stood at the center of both fictional and scientific worlds.

Orgueil et Préjugés est un roman de la femme de lettres anglaise Jane Austen paru en 1813. Il est considéré comme l'une de ses œuvres les plus significatives et c'est aussi la plus connue du public. Résume: À Longbourn, petit bourg du Hertfordshire, sous le règne du roi George III, Mrs Bennet est déterminée à marier ses cinq filles afin d'assurer leur avenir, compromis par certaines dispositions testamentaires. Lorsqu'un riche jeune homme, Mr Bingley, loue Netherfield, un domaine proche, elle espère vivement qu'une de ses filles saura lui plaire assez pour qu'il l'épouse. Malheureusement, il est accompagné de ses deux sœurs, Caroline et Louisa, plutôt imbues d'elles-mêmes, et d'un ami très proche, Mr Darcy, jeune homme immensément riche, mais très dédaigneux et méprisant envers la société locale. Elizabeth Bennet observe avec amusement ce petit monde. Si elle apprécie le charmant Mr Bingley, elle est irritée par le fier Mr Darcy, qui, à leur première rencontre, au cours du bal organisé dans le bourg voisin de Meryton, a refusé assez impoliment de danser avec elle (même si elle en plaisante en disant: "Je pourrais facilement lui pardonner son orgueil s'il n'avait mortifié le mien") Jane Austen (1775-1817) est une femme de lettres anglaise. Son réalisme, sa critique sociale mordante et sa maîtrise du discours indirect libre, son humour décalé et son ironie ont fait d'elle l'un des écrivains anglais les plus largement lus et aimés.