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Pride and Prejudice
 

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the ... (read more)

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Liked It

10 of 10 members found this review helpful.
Frabjous Day
  • Rated 5 stars

“All novels, but comedies in particular, lose much in translation. There are some, however, which are so transcendently brilliant that they lose nothing, at least, in time. Not even in centuries.
Pride and Prejudice is radiant, so witty and so delighted with its own irreverence that I know it will have people laughing for the centuries to come. Of the heroine Elizabeth Bennet, Austen herself was to remark, "I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever...”

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Didn’t Like It

2 of 6 members found this review helpful.
Gregory
  • Rated 2 stars

“I think I'm just in a bad position to read a book like this. Even as a person who has been pretty spoiled most of his life, I cannot relate to the the Bennets' qualm about being so relatively poor. How poor can you possibly be when you have servants actually cooking your meals, doing your laundry, and making your bed?

Yes, yes, I know I'm just supposed to understand that that's how things were back then. But the whole culture back then is such a distraction for me when I know I...”

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Community:
  • Rated 4.464741 stars
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  • Rated 4.410959 stars
  

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  • mouserie

    mouserie said:

    “Are there any books you recommend by the Bronte sisters, koopa matthew, besides the ones everyone and their grandmas have read (i.e. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights)? I've already read these.”

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  • koopa matthew

    koopa matthew said:

    “i think you should read the bronte sisters, mouserie...”

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    ““I find this book very romantic, Austen has done complete justice to the characters in a way that anyone who reads would...”

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  • mouserie

    mouserie said:

    “Does anyone know of any other books out there that are similar to Jane Austen's writing style, that also deal with the same kind of problems within this time period (i.e. imprudent marriages, wealth, family, etc.)? ”

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