Pride and Prejudice in Classics Without All the Class

Oct 30, 2011 Rabbit {Paint me like one of your 19th century gothic heroines!} rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, three-stars, victorian-era, classics

My one issue with this book that it was just boring.

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Dec 24, 2010 Hayden rated it did not like it

Shelves: literature

This work would have been greatly improved with a plot.

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Jan 03, 2017 Sharon rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Filled with wit, humor and truth. Very eloquently written.

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Jan 02, 2011 Laurentiu Lazar rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-books, 1001-list-read, 2012

I liked the first paragraph in the book, which made me really excited since page one.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters."

I loved the characters,Austen possese ...more

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Dec 29, 2010 Whitney rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classic, own-read, favorites, reread, bbc-big-100, theme-austen, 2023, fable-bookclub

EDIT: I reread this and decided that my previous review was far too scathing and I no longer feel that way. I loved this book so much more this time around. I laughed a lot and highlighted so many passages. The family was hilarious and Mr. Bennet's snark had me cracking up. Before he just felt mean spirited but now I see that he's being sarcastic.

I still wouldn't say that this is my favourite Austen but I did find it delightful this time around. ...more

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