ABRIDGED EDITION

What if you actually made progress in Dutch by reading a masterpiece — no dictionary, no effort, no giving up?

This book is a bilingual edition: it contains the abridged novel in Dutch AND in English, together in the same volume. You read Dutch; English is right there to help you.

Why a bilingual book? Unlike apps and textbooks, you learn with a real story that makes you want to turn the page. It is the most natural immersion method there is.

— THE METHOD —

Ordinary bilingual editions make you lose the thread: the Dutch text on the left, the English text on the right, and your eyes darting back and forth hunting for the right line. The result: you give up in the first few pages.

Polyglot Publishing invented something else: synchronised line-by-line alternation. Every line in Dutch is followed directly beneath by the same line in English — like subtitles, but on paper.

• Understand everything, instantly — the meaning of each word is checked at a glance, with no dictionary and no phone
• Improve without noticing — your brain links the two languages unconsciously, sentence after sentence, and Dutch grammar sinks in naturally
• Learn Dutch by finally reading what you love — a real novel, not textbook dialogue

Suitable for every level: the translation helps when you need it — and never gets in the way of your reading.

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— THE BOOK —

Elizabeth Bennet, the second of five sisters, belongs to a family of minor English gentry where marriage decides a daughter's future. The arrival of a wealthy neighbour and of his friend Darcy, thought haughty, unsettles the whole neighbourhood.

Between gossip and hasty judgements, Elizabeth faces a man she believes she already knows. The novel examines social prejudice, pride of rank and the place of women in early nineteenth-century England. Austen's exact irony turns a comedy of manners into a study of feeling and convention.

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