Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy must rethink their judgments of each other as courtship, family expectations, and questions of money complicate their lives.
From the English edition
_Walt Whitman has somewhere a fine and just distinction between “loving by allowance” and “loving with personal love.” This distinction applies to books as well as to men and women; and in the case of the not very numerous authors who are the objects of the personal affection, it brings a curious consequence with it. There is much more difference as to their best work than in the case of those others who are loved “by allowance” by convention, and because it is felt…
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Project Gutenberg eBook 1342 · English
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