Everyman's Library Classics Pride and Prejudice: Introduction by Peter Conrad, (Hardcover)

from TheDivineOomba

I finally got around to reading this book - I tried reading it a few times, but couldn't get past the language. Then I saw the BBC production, finally figured out what was going on, and reread the ...

from LisaMaria_C

This was one of my favorite books well before the miniseries and film made that trendy. Maybe too trendy. It used to be my rather smug secret that a classic of the kind assigned in school was actua...

from jeff.maynes

I, like many others, first read Austen and Pride and Prejudice while in high school. I hated it. I found it to be an indulgent and silly romance amongst the landed gentry of England - a lark wholly...

from neverlistless

This story is wonderful. It focuses on Elizabeth Bennett, the second oldest of 5 girls, who has a mother that is absolutely focused on getting her daughters married. As Jane, Elizabeth's eldest sis...

from pingdjip

At first, I thought of this book as just a pamphlet of the lesser gentry, directed at the rich nobility: oh please let us in, we're not all as impolite as mrs. Bennet! But gradually I fell for it b...