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Jane Austen, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Staff: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (2003) 4 stars

Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The …

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

3 stars

Uh, yeah, not my favorite book, sorry Austen fans! I had very high expectations given the book's remarkable reputation, but I just found it to be a very long description of people discussing marriages, while visiting each other.

What I liked best about Pride and Prejudice are its characters - the plot drags on, but it is carried by its colorful cast of ladies and gentlemen (literally), who almost come alive while reading their eloquent monologues and dialogues about the world around them. They alone are "worth" at least two stars of this rating!

I have to admit I had a lot of trouble with the kind of language. The narrator and almost all characters use long-winded sentences with carefully selected words to convey their opinions, and I found the language in this one particularly difficult to understand. There are definitely many "quotable" lines, particularly the famous opening line of the first chapter.
I am aware this is a book from the 19th century. I guess I'll stick to Victorian novels from a few decades later.