Who it is for
Readers following character development, social satire, and the changing relationships around Chapter 25 will find this chapter especially useful.
English reader · Project Gutenberg #1342
Chapter 25
Pride and Prejudice. English-only reading by default; switch among English, Chinese, and Spanish, or compare languages side by side.
Chapter summary
This chapter advances the novel’s social and emotional action around Chapter 25, using dialogue, family expectations, and manners to reveal character motives and relationships. Its opening movement begins: After a week spent in professions of love and schemes of felicity, Mr. Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte by the arrival of Saturday.
Modern reader note
Read this chapter in its Regency social context. Courtship, inheritance, gender expectations, class manners, and family authority around Chapter 25 reflect the novel’s historical world rather than present-day norms.
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