Five sisters live in a small English manor in the years just before the Napoleonic Wars. Their father is a witty country gentleman, their mother a foolish woman whose only project is marrying them off. When two wealthy young men move into the neighbourhood, the second daughter — Elizabeth — and the prouder of the two — Mr Darcy — meet at a ball. They both leave the ball convinced they will never speak again.
Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in 1813 in the corner of a small drawing room, hiding the manuscript under a blotter when servants entered. The book is the most-read English novel of the nineteenth century and the model for almost every romantic comedy since. Its English is precise, ironic, and quietly devastating — a sentence will praise a character at face value and demolish them in a subordinate clause.
Storica's B2 adaptation keeps the Bennet family intact, the famous opening sentence intact, the proposal scene at Hunsford intact, and the second proposal at Pemberley intact. What is trimmed is the very long Regency-period digressions about entail, settlements, and pin money. What stays is everything that made the book famous — the dialogue, the irony, and the slow correction of two people who started badly.
Austen's English is the deep end of B2 reading. Sentences run long, the irony is dry, and the vocabulary belongs to a class — gentry, settlement, pin money, entail — that does not appear in modern textbooks. But the structure of the prose is profoundly logical: subject, verb, object, qualifier. Once you have the rhythm of an Austen paragraph, you have the rhythm of every English novel for the next hundred years.
Upper intermediate. You read literary novels, follow nuance, handle conditional and subjunctive. You can argue, summarise, and reflect in writing. The plateau is behind you.
Yes — every book in the Storica catalog is available in all seven supported languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. Pride and Prejudice was originally written in English, but you choose your reading language when you start.
B2. Upper intermediate. You read literary novels, follow nuance, handle conditional and subjunctive. You can argue, summarise, and reflect in writing. The plateau is behind you.
About one month at fifteen minutes a day. The adaptation runs to 25 short chapters — short enough to read before bed, long enough to actually move your level.
No. Storica's adaptation is the version you read. We keep the characters, plot beats, and tone of the original — and rewrite the language to fit the level. If you've read the original before, you'll recognise the story; if you haven't, the adaptation is a complete reading of the book.
Pick up where you left off. There are no streaks, no penalties, and no notifications begging you back. Day 12 is still Day 12 a week later.
Pride and Prejudice is rated B2, so we'd suggest starting with one of our A0 or A1 books first if you're brand-new to your target language. Check our shelf at /library/ — the readers there are short, gentle, and built specifically for week one.
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