Pride and Prejudice

An English reading edition hosted by Project Gutenberg. Track the opening narrator’s generalisations and test them against character behaviour.

How to study this source

• How do you build an interpretation from the words on the page?

  extensionChapters 1–3

  Track the opening narrator’s generalisations and test them against character behaviour.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against

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  Katherine Mansfield. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

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  Edgar Allan Poe. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Macbeth

  William Shakespeare. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Metamorphosis

  Franz Kafka. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

  Frederick Douglass. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.