Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Basic Notes

• Schwager

The Novel:

• Class copy checkout
• Paper: Any unedited edition is fine. 
• Digital
• iBooks is the free and is the first result from searching for "Pride and Prejudice." The cover is plain and dark blue. 
• Gutenberg
• .pdf edition 
• epub, kindle, html, etc.  
• Audio: Librivox, version 3
• Old School Edition Below (but they didn't fold all the pages back far enough in the scan...so a letter or two is cut off on some pages). 
• Illustrations 
• Hypertext and Notes

First Half of the Novel:

Second half of the novel:

Prayer

• Jane Austen wrote a few Christian prayers; here are two.

Writers on Jane Austen

Essays (and such) on Jane Austen:

• Jennifer Farrara in Touchstone Magazine (March 2006): "Austen's Powers"
  • Examples of Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights
  • Respond: Take up one idea from Farrara's article to expand upon.  You may agree, disagree, or consider multiple angles of the idea.  Please begin your response with a quotation, then analyze from there. (Please compose one paragraph.)
     
  • OR Show how two fictional characters (besides Darcy and Heathcliff) show two very different visions of ideal love.
   
• Camillia Nelson in The Conversation (March 17, 2015): "Jane Austen Faces Death By Popularity" 

• Joseph Bottom in Books and Culture: "The Novel as Protestant Art" (March/April 2015)

• Dr. Peter Leithart
• Austen's Religious Background
• Pride and Vanity
• Mr. Collins's Proposal and The Book of Common Prayer 
• How Revolutionary was Austen? 

• Austen and Enlightenment

• More Goodness
• Word Study: Candor
• Austen's Arguments (Pairs well with Collins and Common Prayer)
• "Rejecting Jane": The Joke is on Modern Publishers 
• Blogs
• Austen Only 

• Videos
• Background by BBC4
• Pride and Prejudice (1995, in five Episodes)

 Jane Austen Society

• Elaine Bander: "Neither Sex, Money, or Power: Why Elizabeth Finally Says "Yes!"

Journal: Pride and Prejudice

• You will find our study guide on Focus. 
• Your journal assignment for this novel is to answer at least one question for every three chapters of your reading from the guide.  
• With 61 chapters, that means you will have 21 entries that span the course of your reading (at least one response every third chapter you read). 
• These must be handwritten and in your composition book.  Answer all parts of the question and always write in complete sentences. 
• At least one in every five responses must be a paragraph of response (5-7 sentences or more).  
• You will not receive credit if you simply find the easiest question and answer in the simplest fashion.  
• Answers that have grammatical errors will not count toward the 21 total. 

2008, Form B, Passage Focus

Questions	Scoring	Samples and Commentary	Grade Distributions
Free-Response Questions	Scoring Guidelines	Sample Responses Q1 Sample Responses Q2 Sample Responses Q3