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Summary: Great!!!
Review: I love Jane Austen, especially Pride and Predjudice and Persuasion. Come on, this is for readers with brain, you must un-der-stand the characters and not go like 'i dont see the point, bla bla bla blabla.....' Those who say the book is boring , go writing yourselves. You dont have Jane Austen's brain. :p:p
The books funny, the plot is interesting and you learn a lot with this book. :)
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Summary: Classic tale of finding love in unexpected places!
Review: I was forced to read "pride and prejudice" for a high school english class...but i immediately fell in love with it...it has everything from love, humor, stereotypes, and anything else bundles into one heartfelt, lovely story. If you like anything dealing with romance, this book is a must read. I recommend it to people of all ages, races, genders because it truly emits a universal message!
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Summary: A book worthy of being read several times.
Review: I loved Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I have read it so much that the cover is worn. The BBC movie version was almost as great at the book and very very close to the accuracy of the book. I have read Emma and Persuasion and loved them both, though not as well as Pride and Prejudice. You'll want to buy it so that you have it to read again and again!
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Summary: An inspirng novel, capable of pulling one out of any funk
Review: I can still remember the act of reading this book, during a rather blase summer vaction in the middle of my college years. It inspired me greatly, maybe because I identified with Darcy, and thought that I could be a hero, too. For whatever reason, I enjoyed it thorougly.
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Summary: Another Great Austen Book
Review: A MUST READ for Austen fans!
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Summary: Be a man! Read Jane Austen!
Review: I'm a recent newlywed who decided to raid his wifes bookshelf and this was the first book of hers that I picked up. Wanting to be better read and enjoying the movie "Sense and Sensibility." I recommend to anyone that is curious but apprehensive of Austen like I was to see a film based on one of her books. You will hear the use and cadence of victorian speech which will, in my humble opinion, make her books more accessible and easier to read. This is the first Jane Austen I've read and I am now bonafide fan. This is one of those stories where the destination is not important but the journey is. Within the first ten pages, the stage is set. The two headstrong protagonists, Miss Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy cannot stand one another at the beginning of the book. Sparks fly and meet with typical results. The characters are distinct and memorable. Mr. Bennet, Elizabeth's father, was one of my favorites. Anyone who is an admirer of dry "british" humor will find themselves in stitches. It is the first book in a very long time where I found myself laughing out loud and on more than one occasion. A moderately quick read for those used to victorian prose. I for one am glad that I got over the "girly" stigma that's usually associated with Jane Austen. It has made me consider other books in my wifes arsenal I normally would not have otherwise. I will, however, pass on her "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" Great book. Enjoy.
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Summary: Classic Entertainment
Review: Austen is a wonderful omniscient author and has a delightful perspective on people's traits and character. She realized that people are complex, and included their different sides in these characters. It's a feel good book, and we need those once in a while. Its like a mature fairy tale. This is my favorite book, however I only give it four stars because it didn't pose a challenge or have me ready to change the world, however I enjoyed this enduring love story.
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Summary: Review on Pride and Prejudice
Review: "I"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." This is the opening that initiated the whole story with a click, that not only addressed the theme of this book, but also of a "universally acknowledged" truth.
In my long search for a literary classic that I could both enjoy reading as well as get something out of, I finally ended up with "Pride and Prejudice", by Jane Austen. Upon reading the first sentence of this book, I was immediately captured by the story liveliness and soon found myself hooked. In addition to the lively, vivid tone of the book, what enchanted me the most was the seamless way in which each character behaviors and interactions were so carefully woven together in an intricate plot. Some characters that appear in the book are:
- Mr. Bennet, a brilliant, sarcastic man who likes to ridicule the silliness of his wife
- Mrs. Bennet, a middle aged woman who is eager to marry her daughters off to rich and prosperous families when they come of age
- Their five daughters:
- Jane, who, being the eldest, believes in human good and righteousness in all human beings,
- Mary, their third child, who is always absorbed in books thinking about this and that
- The shy Catherine, also known as Kitty, who always followed her flirtatious younger sister, Lydia around in flirting with officers. However, all the characters and indeed the whole story revolves around Miss. Elizabeth Bennet the second oldest sister, a witty, headstrong girl, and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, a very queer, shy man. At first sight, Elizabeth's assumption and observation towards Mr. Darcy pride made her prejudiced against him. Yet in the end an unexpected twist ends this book in a very satisfactory manner. Although many readers especially teenagers might be "prejudiced" against reading the old "classics", I found this book to be quite interesting. This book gave me an insight on the thoughts of the people during that time period, and some hints how they were suppress or discriminated by the class system.
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Summary: One of the Best
Review: This is one of the best books I've ever read! Definitely in the top 10! It is a book of real life drama and intense love. I couldn't wait to see if Miss Elizabeth Bennet would drop some of her prejudices or if Mr. Darcy would look thru his pride or if Miss Jane Bennet would end up with the one she loved. This book is excellence in writing and in overall story! It was a book that I will read again!! Beyond doubt!
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Summary: A Timeless Tale
Review: A mother's driving force is getting her five daughters married quickly; it hardly matters to whom. A suitor proposes, is summarily rejected and marries someone else within days. A woman doesn't like men but wants to get married anyway. A sixteen-year-old runs off with a man and doesn't marry him right away, much to the chagrin of both her parents and sisters. A mother has no use for her daughter's suitor but happily accepts him into the family because he is wealthy. The less money a family has, the more important it is that all their daughters marry and quickly. If the family lives in the country, they must work harder to get these daughters married. Sound like your favorite sitcom and/or your favorite cousin and her family? Well, it's Jane Austin's timeless PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. I recently reread this comedy of manners that I hadn't read since high school. Here we have much ado about getting the daughters married. Even though we in the U. S. have lived through the 60's and the "Women's Movement," sixty percent of law students now are women, and many things have changed about the way young women are brought up and what they do with their lives, I still saw a lot of families I know here. Everything changes; yet everything remains the same. Everybody points out what is so unique about this novel as well as the rest of Austin's works. She does very little to place them in any given time. They are quite wonderful in what they don't tell us. Austin doesn't give us a lot of specificity about a lot of things. For example, The Bennetts are always entertaining yet we don't know much about what they eat other than "venison" or "meat." While people often "color" when they blush, the only color named in the entire novel is blue; Wickham may wear a blue coat when he gets married. The young women often play music but we are never told the names of the pieces they play. We do know that Elizabeth plays rather badly. I kept thinking that these young girls have too much free time on their hands. They need more hobbies or part-time jobs. Of course young women of a certain station in Austin's day didn't work. The ironic first line of the novel is well-known: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." With that great opener, we are off and running. Parts of this novel will make you smile; others will make your laugh. My favorite character is the father, Mr. Bennett, who is quick to see and point out his wife's and others' foibles but never sees his own.
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