Netflix is adapting Pride and Prejudice as a series, arriving in autumn 2026, with Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet, Jack Lowden as Darcy and Olivia Colman as Mrs. Bennet. If that has you wondering what the novel actually says, you can read it right now.

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What you are reading

The English text is the Project Gutenberg edition of Austen's 1813 novel — all 61 chapters, unabridged, preceded by George Saintsbury's preface. Austen wrote in English, so nothing here passes through an intermediate language. Note that the preface occupies chapter 1 in the reader, so the novel itself begins at chapter 2.

The adaptation

Written by Dolly Alderton and directed by Euros Lyn, produced by Lookout Point. Filming ran through 2025 in Spitalfields, the Peak District and Rye. A teaser arrived in February 2026; as of this writing an exact premiere date has not been announced. The cast also includes Rufus Sewell as Mr. Bennet and Fiona Shaw as Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

It follows two adaptations that already loom large — the 1995 BBC serial with Colin Firth and Joe Wright's 2005 film with Keira Knightley — which is part of what makes reading the source first worthwhile. The book is the one version no casting decision has settled for you.

Read it alongside Korean

Pagera's bilingual mode pairs the English with a Korean translation paragraph by paragraph — 2,075 aligned pairs across all 62 reader chapters (preface included).

For learners, Austen cuts both ways. The dialogue is plentiful and its sentences are short. The narration is 1813 English, and the politeness is heavily indirect, so a line can be grammatically simple and still hard to place. Having the Korean beside it saves time exactly there.

Where to start

• Chapter 1 — the most quoted opening sentence in English fiction. Five minutes.
• Chapter 3 — the ball, and the remark that sets everything in motion.
• Chapter 34 — the first proposal.

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