Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

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 book. I had a greater grasp of what was happening. This book is much better than the BBC version, an...

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 actually so fun--such a winning blend of romance and humor. And God, the awful professionally published f...

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 unconnected from real injustice and struggle. After all, despite its focus on meaningful relationsh...

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 sister, is being courted by a new man in town, Elizabeth meets his friend, Mr. Darcy. He is a seemingly...

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 because of everything that everybody's always talking about. The tension in Darcy's and Elisabeth's c...