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Summary: A CLASSIC FOR EVERYONE
Review: I had to read this book for English class not too long ago as an independant reading...AND I LOVED IT! I was struck by the clear, realistic writing and I finished it in two days. I hated having to put it down every few chapters to write in my journal about it. This book has a great message in it--for a clue, look at the title. P&P is all that it's said to be...a classic novel with a heart-warming lesson within it's pages. The romance between Eliza and Darcy is thrilling. The characters of Eliza's parents are hilarious. I loved the style of the writing-not flowery or rambling. The story line could take place anywhere and to anyone. You just can't put this book down, and if you have to, your hands burn to pick it up again. JUST READ THE BOOK, THEN YOU'LL KNOW WHAT I'M GOING ON AND ON ABOUT!!! :)
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Summary: Awesome and hilarious
Review: I had once heard a defination of a "classic as a book to be admired but not read." This book definately defied all that. It was great read. Funny, touching and warm. A witty husband, a pain for a wife and adorable daughters. Do read. This is from a 18 year girl. so a must read for all.
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Summary: This book is very sophisticated; yet quite amusing
Review: With a perusal of this book one will find the snobbery of the time yet Austen reveals this in an amusing way. I found when reading this book i am quite fluttered about the story because of the richness of the characters and the plot. With reading this book another time one finds a new detail not seen the first time around. This is truly an inspiration of a book that shows politeness still remains locked in books and in forgotten parts of time.
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Summary: (dare I say it?) a literate Harlequin romance
Review: Anyone who has ever abandoned a first impression of another for quite an opposite assessment of the person... or had a disingenuous "friend"... or been mortified by a parent's behavior in front of someone whose opinion mattered... or had a wanton and unrepentant sibling... or been able to lay bear to an object of affection the true meaning of all of the crossed signals and misunderstandings that occurred up until that point... To any such persons (and several more), Austen's novel, though nearly two hundred years old, will surely ring true. As in most any romantic comedy, there is not much question of the couple(s!) getting together in the end, but it's the getting there--and, of course, the revelation of it all in the end--that is the fun.
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Summary: gets better every time i pick it up
Review: I first read "P&P" when i was very young and i enjoyed it but didnt understand much other than Lizzie Bennett was adorable. but i recently read it again and it was so wondeful, all the subtle humor and irony behind what seems to be just a simple love story. what's amazing is that even thought the book was written in Regency England the characters seem so recognizable: the pompous sycophant Collins, the overbearing mom Mrs. Bennett, the dishonest charmer Wickham, and of course, the sometimes self-righteous, sometimes sharp-tongued, but always lovable Lizzie, who's just my favorite. Now that i have a boyfriend i can understand the relationship between lizzie and darcy much better: unlike today's soap operas, where people jump into bed within minutes of meeting, Austen recognizes that true love takes time to develop and that lovers dont always say or do the right thing. it's just wondeful, the whole book, and i recommend all girls read if only to have a real role-model in Lizzie Bennett.
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Summary: 2 Enthusiastic Thumbs-Up!
Review: "P+P" is one of those rare and delightful reads which tugs the heartstrings even more each time you pick it up. This story combines razor-sharp wit and genuine feeling to produce a thoroughly pleasing result. Elizabeth and Darcy are vibrant characters with whom you can genuinely sympathize. One doesn't feel detached from the plot and conflicts despite the myriad differences between Regency England and late 20th century America. In short, "Pride & Prejudice" remains my all-time favorite book, bar none. To the high-school student of "Brit Lit" who cannot bear another "thee" or "thou", take a chance on this book. Austen is a refreshing change, and will most likely prove a pleasant surprise.
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Summary: This is one of the greatest love stories of all time!
Review: This is the type of book that you never want to end. Jane Austen has an incredible way of connecting her characters to one another and makes the reader anxiously anticipate the story's final love scene. Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy are two of the most unforgettable characters in literature. The transformations of their characters is lovely to experience, over and over again!
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Summary: One of the best books ever written!
Review: Pride and Prejudice is one of the best books I've read. The characters are realistic, yet all are classic 'types'. Elizabeth and Darcy play well off each other, with quazi-ralistic dialoge and beautiful settings. The book lets the modern reader into a time and place not seen any more. The fashions, people, and places are all interesting. Austen tells a wonderful story with side plots and interesting characters. You'll laugh at Mr. Collins' speeches and Mr. Bennet's way of looking at the world, get angry at Lady Catherine and her high handed ways, and dispair over Lydia's and Mrs. Bennet's silliness. A great book to curl up with.
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Summary: It's better than any classic book I've read.
Review: This book is so great that if I didn't have school the next day I would read the book within a day. It's so amazing when I finished the book and I reread parts of the book when I finished. Boys might even be interested in this book. I recommend to all teenagers, esp. to the females out there.I'm speechless mostly to tell the truth of how great this book is. I'm going to go buy my own copy.
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Summary: Pride & Prejudice -- Treating of the Flaws Within
Review: Surely, there is no one among us who would dare gainsay the talents of the eminent Jane Austen, whose approbation with the criticks has lasted even unto our own epoch, and whom nature saw fit to bless with an insightfulness into her fellow man that is, was, and ever shall be beyond compare; howsoever, we must contend that Ms. Austen, for all her superabundant virtues, does often display a fault common to authors of her gender; that is, a tendency to be more self-surfeited -- smug -- than one can scruple, and to rather perversely value eloquence over compassion. Pride and prejudice, as well as Pride & Prejudice, we would here ascribe to Ms. Austen, who had about her the air of the eternal know-it-all, and who in life, as has been well-documented, ever preferred to observe than to participate. This in itself would be unobjectionable, excepting that a woman of her intelligence ought to have been more forgiving, and less Olympian, to those unfortunates who were forced into service, as it were, and who tried their best to maintain their dignity and comportment in an often unfit, and always injurious world. Elizabeth Bennett, in all other respects a most laudable and exemplary heroine, amply bears out the shortcomings of her creator, as she can, on occasion, appear to the reader less forbearing than downright forbidding -- in a word, frigid. In all affairs, she conducts herself with the utmost probity, and she cannot be censured with any crime more serious than that of over-hasty judgment, but her want of passion, as well as her excessively analytical nature, wears away at our good nature until, by story's end, we feel an almost total apathy to her purported happiness. We would be presumptuous in our ignorance if we were to draw a connection between author and character, but Ms. Austen was widely reputed to be something of a cold mackerel herself, and indeed it has been said that she died a virgin, having never so much as touched lips with a man ( though we would not have this be held against her, as we ourselves, Lord knows, are not of the most amorous disposition. ) Though many readers may find the above to savour of the scurrilous, or the intrusive, we hasten to assure them that this was not our intent, and that Ms. Austen's reputation is surely secure from any such imputations as we may make; our purpose in so doing is only to establish perspective, and to aver that Ms. Austen, clever as she may have been, was still a toplofty and condescending woman, and therefore of significantly lesser value than Shakespeare, to whom she has often been compared. Her work does evidence an incisiveness and consistency worthy of the great Bard's, albeit in miniature, and rather more content to unfold in drawing rooms and ladies' bedchambers than on the world's vasty stage; but while the telescope of her vision may not be of the longest range, and can scarcely reach unto the heavens, it can reflect, in impressive and exacting detail, the flora and fauna of her own small, colorful backyard.
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