Sourcebooks Landmark
April 2011
On Sale: April 1, 2011
Featuring: George Wickham; Fitzwilliam Darcy; Georgiana Darcy
208 pages ISBN: 1402251866 EAN: 9781402251863 Hardcover Add to Wish List
This prequel to Pride and Prejudice begins with
George
Wickham at age 12, handsome and charming but also
acutely aware that his friend, Fitzwilliam Darcy, is rich,
whilst he is poor. His mother encourages him to exercise
his charm on the young Georgiana Darcy and Anne de
Bourgh in the hopes of establishing a stable of wealthy
social connections.
At university, Darcy and Wickham grow apart. Wickham
is always drinking and wenching, whilst Darcy, who
apparently has everything, is looking for something he
cannot find. Wickham runs through the money Darcy
gives him and then takes up with the scandalous Belle, a
woman after Wickham’s own greedy, black heart.