His Appearance Was Greatly in His Favour
Pride and Prejudice, chapter fifteen. Pride and Prejudice is a coming-of-age novel as much as, or maybe more than, it’s a romance. The rather uncomfortable »
Books of a Serious Stamp
Pride and Prejudice Chapter Fourteen Mr. Collins’s visit to the Bennets commences in earnest in chapter fourteen, and he predictably and comically makes an idiot »
Servility and Self-Importance
Pride and Prejudice, chapter 13. Something that Jane Austen loves doing, and did to perhaps to best and most sophisticated effect in Mansfield Park, is giving »
The Absence of Jane
Pride and Prejudice Chapter Twelve. Chapter twelve of Pride and Prejudice is largely about moving the pieces. There’s nothing more for Elizabeth and Darcy to »
How Pleasant It Is to Spend an Evening in This Way
Pride and Prejudice Chapter Eleven. In chapter eleven of Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth and Darcy are once again drawn into a conversational dance they seem barely »