Who it is for
Readers following character development, social satire, and the changing relationships around Chapter 29 will find this chapter especially useful.
English reader · Project Gutenberg #1342
Chapter 29
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 29, using dialogue, family expectations, and manners to reveal character motives and relationships. Its opening movement begins: Collins’s triumph, in consequence of this invitation, was complete. The power of displaying the grandeur of his patroness to his wondering visitors, and of letting them see her civility towards himself and his wife, was exactly what he had wished for; and that an opportunity of doing it should be given so soon was such an instance of Lady Catherine’s condescension as he knew not how to admire enough.
Modern reader note
Read this chapter in its Regency social context. Courtship, inheritance, gender expectations, class manners, and family authority around Chapter 29 reflect the novel’s historical world rather than present-day norms.
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