i readied the book twice i can say it's more then fenomenal. It's a book a gladly recommed. The characters are perfect contured and is full of action. The way Austean describes their fellings is unique.
Good old uptight Darcy, one of the most enduring romantic heroes in fiction. This book started a persistent trend which has continued to this day, although the most recent incarnation of Darcy and Bennet has them battling zombies… Anyway, the original (and in my opinion the best) showcases Austen at her finest, lighthearted and reveling in the sparkling wordplay of her characters. Highly recomme... read more
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Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character, who if provoked is not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp -- but a
Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character, who if provoked is not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp -- but always polite -- 18th century wit. The point is, you spend the whole book absolutely fixated on the critical question: will Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy hook up?
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For over 150 years, Pride And Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her "own darling child." Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of these—the haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy—irks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. She annoys him. Which is how we know they must one day marry. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy is a splendid rendition of civilized sparring. As the characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, Jane Austen's radiantly caustic wit and keen observation sparkle.
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Jane Austen's perfect comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. "Pride and Prejudice seems as vital today as ever," writes Anna Quindlen in her introduction to this Modern Library edition. "It is a pure joy to read." Eudora Welty agrees: "The gaiety is unextinguished, the irony has kept its bite, the reasoning is still sweet, the sparkle undiminished. [It is] irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be."
"Jane Austen’s father submitted an early version of Pride and Prejudice, under the title First Impressions, to a publisher who rejected it. Austen spent fifteen years rewriting the novel (1798 to 1813, when the book was published), and changed the title to a phrase probably taken (in homage) from Fanny Burney's novel Cecilia."
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"“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” "
“Good old uptight Darcy, one of the most enduring romantic heroes in fiction. This book started a persistent trend which has continued to this day, although the most recent incarnation of Darcy and Bennet has them battling zombies… Anyway, the original (and in my opinion the best) showcases Austen at her finest, lighthearted and reveling in the sparkling wordplay of her characters. Highly recommended.
“i readied the book twice i can say it's more then fenomenal. It's a book a gladly recommed. The characters are perfect contured and is full of action. The way Austean describes their fellings is unique.” read more
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