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Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Start date: January 1, 2025

Finish date: January 31, 2025

Discussion: CLASSICS READS

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Sep 28, 2012 Stephen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: all-5-star-reads, z-read-in-2012, literature, romance, historical-fiction, and-saw-the-movie, available-on-line, 1-quiz

After watching the movie again and again, I decided that it was time to finally tackle the book. Having being disappointed with the stodgy/stilted/unwieldy nature of so many classics, this one was a real surprise and a delight.

For the most part the prose is still fresh and easy to follow and the story has all of the best aspects of a modern romantic comedy. I've heard that this may be the perfect novel and while that's a rather strong superlative, I can see why folks might thinks so. First publ ...more

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Sep 06, 2011 Sarina rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favourites, thought-provoking, historical-romances, classics, historical-fiction

I read and watch every good retelling and adaptation or re-imagination of it, whenever I come across one. I don't know what it is about this story that pulls me so. Is it the slow change of perception? Is it the combination of the progressing towards a great romance and realizing the need for respect and moralilty at the same time? Is it the showing of the weakness and strength of family ties? Is it the dance between the strong, good, loving, witty but quick-to-judge Elizabeth Bennet and the arr ...more

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Jan 25, 2013 Stephen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, literature, romance, all-5-star-reads, z-read-in-2013, 0-available-free-on-line

A second reading of this brought the story into even better focus and I appreciate it more than the first time through. This really is a great book with a robust storyline that I'm sure will just get better and better with subsequent readings. ...more

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Dec 06, 2015 Susannah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: listened-to-audiobook, dws-literary-birthdays, reading-the-classics

I finished Pride and Prejudice for my Dead Writers' Society Literary Birthday challenge author for December, Jane Austen. I feel like I know exactly what I'm going to get with Austen, knowing her novels so well without even having read many of them. And I mean that in a positive way: great comfort comes with reading Austen's novels, knowing that everything is going to work out in the end….

One thing I did not like about this novel was the cartoonishness of pretty much everyone but Elizabeth, Darc ...more

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