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Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Start date: May 1, 2011

Finish date: July 1, 2011

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Why we're reading this: We will be reading Pride and Prejudice along with Emma across May and June.
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May 12, 2011 Ben rated it it was amazing

Pride and Prejudice stood through time. Crossed cultural boundaries. Translated to hundreds of languages. Studied in an English Class. Inspired aspiring writers. Mirrored the early 19th century England. The only thing that a contemporary reader can ask would be how beautiful it is.

I don’t know if its true but they say Jane Austen started the brigade of Chick Lit, a genre of fiction featuring a female protagonist, often in a humorous ambiance, mostly includes romance and requires less thinking of ...more

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Feb 06, 2011 Charlotte rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, interesting-female-characters, social-commentary, humour-and-or-satire, authors-female

There's not much to say about this that hasn't already been said. Personally, I find it a good introduction to Jane Austen, but she wrote other books which are better - Emma or Persuasion for example. ...more

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