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Pride and Prejudice is the most dialogue-driven book in TypingProo's library. Nearly every page delivers rapid conversational volleys — quotation marks open and close in quick succession, em-dashes interrupt speeches mid-sentence, and attribution tags like "said Elizabeth archly" train you to type with natural rhythm rather than mechanical pace. The vocabulary sits at the intersection of formal and witty: "impertinence", "condescension", "propriety" appear alongside quick-fire banter that demands you keep up without breaking flow. What makes this book distinctive for typists is Austen's sentence architecture — she frequently balances two clauses with a central comma, so your fingers develop an intuitive sense of when punctuation arrives. Austen's novel runs over 120,000 words; the three passages here concentrate its most dialogue-heavy chapters into about 675 words, roughly 17 minutes at 40 WPM. Progress saves automatically after every passage.
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This practice set contains 3 passages from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, split into 9 typing segments — about 674 words, roughly 17 minutes of typing at 40 WPM. Your position saves in your browser after every segment, so you can stop and resume without an account.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
— Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen