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My favorite are perhaps the interchanges betweenLady Catherine and Elizabeth. While those between Elizabethand Mr. Darcy are justifiably famous, I would say that many of the othersare at the same level. After seeing a number of adaptations, I finally decided to read all ofAusten's novels. I am very much looking forward to readingthe remaining three completed novels. However, this is the best so far. Northanger Abbey was not bad, and Sense and Sensibilityis excellent. While there is a lot ofinsightful comment on the custom of English society of the time, anddiscussion of the character's motivation, the book just sparkles duringthe interchanges between them.
It is simply a love story with a few hints of irony thrown in. This novel is complete trash, and I really regret having to read it for my literature class. I was expecting a "classic" when I read this and the only reason that I can think of for this book to be considered a classic is because it was written by a woman at a time when women were repressed in society.
Also, Austen clearly never learned that readers do not like run-on sentences because the so called "novel", consists of run-on sentences that sometimes consist of more than one page. I could have simply read the celebrity tabloids, and I would have been exposed to as informative and moving of a story as this piece of trash. Austen also describes everything way too much, when one sentence is clearly enough.
This is a terrible novel. In fact, I hate the characters because they are shallow and self-centered.
The plot is shallow. The characters are very unlikable.
Pride and Prejudice will always be a clasic. Jane Austen is an amazing author. Highly recommended. I plan on reading the rest of Jane Austen's books also. I loved this book. I got a little frustrated with it sometimes, but I'm very glad I decided to keep reading it.
All the characters have an appeal that's makes you appreciate the way they fit into the story. It's scrupulously clean morally, and I would recommend it to anyone who appreciates the time when love stories were wholesome and pure and touching. This book is a timeless and beloved classic. It's a beautiful story of class in Jane Austen's time that appeals to us today because it is so well-wrtitten.
The headings include the editor's material, and the three volume headings. Kindle owners hopefully are aware of the wealth of free editions of the classics which are available through Feedbooks and other sources.I obtained a copy of P&P from feedbooks originally and while it was easy to get and the price was right, the overall quality of the text is not great. I've found several typos, presumably the result of OCR errors and it's somewhat distracting.Since P&P is one of my wife's favorite books, I was delighted to seePenguin had released an electronic edition for $0.50 complete with the usual footnotes, essays and maps that one's used to finding in textbook editions of the classics.The table of contents is pretty minimal.
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