Pride and prejudice

An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism

Paperback, 413 pages

English language

Published July 15, 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company.

ISBN:
978-0-393-97604-5
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OCLC Number:
912405072

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4 stars (128 reviews)

A perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Editions series, Pride and Prejudice is based on the 1813 first edition text, which has been thoroughly annotated for undergraduate readers. "Backgrounds and Sources" includes biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and by acclaimed biographers Claire Tomalin and David Nokes. Seventeen of Austen's letters - eight of them new to the Third Edition - allow readers to glimpse the close-knit society that was Austen's world, both in life and in her writing. Samples of Austen's early writing - from the epistolary Love and Friendship and A Collection of Letters allow readers to trace her growth as a writer as well as to read her fiction comparatively. "Criticism" features eighteen assessments of the novel by nineteenth- and twentieth-century commentators, six of them new to the Third Edition. Among them is an interview with Colin Firth on the recent BBC television adaptation …

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4 stars

Pride And Prejudice is a difficult novel for me to review because, although this was my first reading of Austen's work, I have already encountered its essential storyline in televised adaptations and numerous other novels so I felt as though I was revisiting the book rather than coming to it fresh. I enjoyed the humour, especially Austen's partly-veiled observations on the predicament of women rendered useless without a husband and, of course, her wonderful characters. Austen had such a talent for observation and for just exaggerating foibles enough to make people such as Mrs Bennet and Lady Catherine ridiculous, but not unbelievable. Personally I wasn't convinced by Darcy's complete change of behaviour mid-book, but both he and Elizabeth have wonderfully sparkling conversations and spats with the great energy fairly leaping from the page. The repression of their social situation contrasts brilliantly with the obvious strength of their emotional attraction to …

Review of 'Pride and Prejudice' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

I finished this in agony. The dialogue is witty at times, but always at such a boring, inconsequential level. Most of the conversation is about how agreeable or disagreeable this or that person is, and while Austen tries to address this superficiality with the character of Mr. Darcy, his character arc is extremely superficial in its own way. Actually, this dickhead very predictably turns out to be a very kind, lovely and agreeable man once you get to know him.

The characters are boring. Mr. Darcy makes the very predictable transformation from total dickhead to precious darling in basically the snap of a finger. Elizabeth's only character trait seems being a smart-ass. Jane is a gullible fool. Mr. Collins is ugly and disagreeable. All Mrs. Bennet ever worries about is marrying her daughters. And Mr. Bennet doesn't ever give a shit about anything, except his daughter Lydia being …

Review of "Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice" on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Elegant and everything you may have heard it was, but it requires so much concentration to read that reading it becomes a little bit of a chore for someone like me, who's been out of the academic realm for many years. But I'm shallow. Most appreciate it and I do, in concept. Isn't it great that you can read something written over two centuries ago and still connect with it?

Review of 'Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I sprinted through this one, aided by clear writing, a point-to-point plot with escalating opponents that felt very video game-like, and a rushed conclusion. There were a few too many familiar fantasy tropes for my taste, though, like (spoiler alert) the fallen, decaying kingdom in which it was set, the protagonist who was the last of a long line of protectors, the supporting character who was a bastard prince, the system of magic tied to the land, utilizing a power based on a single premise (the interface between life and death), and talking animals that were not actually animals - there was even an ancient Wall separating the peaceable human lands from the lurking evil beyond, a climactic battle set in the protagonist's erstwhile boarding school, and a horcrux to destroy. I was intrigued by the existence of electricity and motor vehicles south of the Wall, which teased the possibility …

Review of 'Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This was interesting. Two worlds border each other along the Wall: the Old Kingdom, where magic works but technology doesn't, and Ancelstierre, where the reverse is true. Sabriel is from the Old Kingdom, but has been raised in Ancelstierre. When her father dies, she must take up his mantel as the Abhorsen and cross the Wall in an attempt to rescue him from Death.

Review of 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' on 'Storygraph'

1 star

Terrible. Terrible. Simply terrible. I don't think I've ever said this of any of the books on here, but this was a terrible book and a disappointment. I know there's a recent trend to graphic novelize anything and everything, and I honestly thought making the P&P&Zombies novel into a graphic novel was a SUPERB idea. However, it was a major letdown. The illustrations were great, but not really in a graphic novel format. I'm not sure how to explain this-the characters were sometimes barely distinguishable and the illustrator was NOT good at expressing action or dialogue. He (Richards) actually managed to CONFUSE me. Sometimes a character would be having an internal monologue but there was no way to tell that; in other words, half the time I thought the characters were insane for talking to themselves or hard of hearing for not understanding how other characters were bashing him/her out …

Review of 'Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Fantastically dark story that proves that Garth Nix is teh win always. Important points: despite being a male, Mr. Nix writes a believable post-adolescent female and does so well, and his working the romance into this story was delicate, subtle, and just frickin' awesome.

Review of 'Orgueil et préjugés' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Voilà bien longtemps que je souhaitais lire du Jane Austen. Le défi de Fashion en a été l’occasion. Je suis plutôt mitigée. Ma satisfaction durant la lecture a été plutôt fluctuante. Pendant un court moment je me suis demandé si j’allais pourvoir arriver au bout sans m’endormir. Plus tard, avançant dans ma lecture, ma curiosité commença à être titillée, et j’envisageais avec plaisir de finir le livre, tout en me disant que je n’en lirais pas d’autre de cet auteur (oui, auteur sans “e” à la fin). Finalement j’ai terminé ma lecture en espérant lire Raison et sentiments qui se trouve dans ma PAL. Tout ça pour dire que j’ai eu du mal à rentrer dans cet univers à première vue guindé et mièvre. Une fois dedans, on suit avec intérêt les petits soucis des personnages, tous très intéressants et travaillés. Jane Austen analyse et illustre à merveille ses contemporains, …

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Subjects

  • Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
  • Social classes -- Fiction
  • Young women -- Fiction
  • Courtship -- Fiction
  • Sisters -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction

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