First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2014
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Source ISBN: 9780007559220
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Version: 2018-03-20
For Emily Moore,
who stuck by me from the beginning.
“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.”
“And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Contents
Part 1
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
About the Author
Books by Alice Oseman
About the Publisher
Elizabeth Bennet: Do you dance, Mr Darcy?
Mr Darcy: Not if I can help it.
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
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