Pride & Prejudice
By Jane Austen
Genre: Romance, Drama



THE AUTHOR: Jane was born into a family that was not supposed to encourage things like writing because back in the 1700's a writer was not an appropriate profession for a young lady of her particular background. Her family never thought she would be a published writer, but within the walls of their household she was encouraged to write. Growing up in the house she lived in, 15-year-old Jane Austen began writing her own novels, and by age 23 she had completed the original versions of Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice. Some of her most famous works are Sense & Sensibility published in 1811, Pride & Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), Persuasion (1817), andNorthlanger Abbey (1817). Despite Jane's short life and short time being a writer, she remains one of the most well-known and liked writers in history.


THE STORY: Elizabeth Bennet is an average 19th century daughter, she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their family lives in England. She is one of five daughters. Elizabeth is her fathers favorite because of her personality and how she looks at life. His wife's greatest concern is getting her daughters married off to some nice men. Jane is the most beautiful so she is Mrs. Bennet's highest hope for an easy match and marriage. When Mr. Bingley, a young man from London, gets a country estate near to the Bennet's home, Mrs. Bennet begins her match-making. Mr. Bingley and Jane become fond of one another. Mr. Darcy, who has accompanied Bingley to the country, starts to Elizabeth. Mr. Darcy doesn’t like the country or the people who live there very much. Elizabeth, learning of his dislike, gets angry. Elizabeth immediately has another reason yo dislike Mr. Darcy. She argues with Darcy each time they see eachother, but somewhere along the way he begins to like Elizabeth. When Bingley leaves the countryside suddenly and makes no attempts to contact Jane anymore, she is heartbroken. Elizabeth, who had thought well of Bingley, believes that there is something not right about the way Mr.Bingley left so suddenly. When Elizabeth goes to visit her friend at Darcy's aunts she starts the figure out what happened. After several times meeting with Mr. Darcy while visiting her friend, Darcy proposes to her. Elizabeth refuses him and questions him about the way that Bingley abandoned Jane. Darcy writes a letter to explain, and Elizabeth is embarrassed to learn that she had been mislead. If she knew the truth, she would have loved Darcy. Darcy leaves that part of the country before she can sort out her feelings and fix things with him. Then she meets him again when she is touring the gardens of his estate with her aunt and uncle. Darcy treats her with kindness and she believes he may still love her, but before anything happens, she learns that one of her younger sisters is getting married to the soldier that lied to Elizabeth about Mr.Darcy and she goes home. After the wedding Elizabeth is surprised that Darcy returns to the country with Bingley. She thought that her sister's actions had ruined any chances of a relationship with Mr. Darcy, or Jane and Bingley. Elizabeth learns from her aunt that Darcy did a great part to help get her younger sister properly married to the soldier. Jane and Bingley sort out the misunderstandings before and get engaged. Then Elizabeth and Darcy work out their misunderstandings and get married.



CRITIQUE #1: Pride and Prejudice contains one of the most cherished love stories in English literature. The way Jane Austen writes the love story in this book is amazing, any lover of romance novels would absolutely love this book. As in any good love story, the lovers must overcome numerous obsticles and the author really encorprates a lot of those into the story. This book has love, mystery, pride, and courage, what else do you need to make a wonderful love story?


CRITIQUE #2: The only thing about Pride and Prejudice is that for some people its quite hard to understand. Jane Austen was alive back in the 1700’s, and back then they spoke a lot different then we do now, she wrote the book with words and the way they spoke back then, and for some people parts of this book would be a bit challenging if you can’t understand certain things she puts in the dialogue. Therefore this book might not be for everybody.

CRITIQUES #3: Pride and Prejudice is a very interesting book, but for some people it might not be, in some parts of the book it got pretty boring because it felt like nothing was happening for pages and pages. If your not able to keep up with whats happening in the book it can get pretty confusing also. You have to be pretty into the type of book it is if you going to read it the whole way through. If you like romance and drama you won’t have a problem reading this whole book without putting it down.





PUBLICATIONS:

“Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character, who if provoked is not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp -- but always polite -- 18th century wit. The point is, you spend the whole book absolutely fixated on the critical question: will Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy hook up?” - Amazon.com

“Austen is the hot property of the entertainment world with new feature film versions of Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility on the silver screen and Pride and Prejudice hitting the TV airwaves on PBS. Such high visibility will inevitably draw renewed interest in the original source materials. These new Modern Library editions offer quality hardcovers at affordable prices.” - Library Journal

“A wonderful classic! This is one of the best books I have ever read. Jane Austen succeeds in giving us a realistic idea of what life for a woman living in 19th century England was like. The characters in this novel are well developed and make it an interesting reading experience. Elizabeth is a smart, witty woman who is ahead of her time in terms of being able to think for herself.” - Barnes and Noble

I have ever read. Jane Austen succeeds in giving us a realistic idea of what life for a woman living in 19th century England was like. The characters in this novel are well developed and make it an interesting reading experience. Elizabeth is a smart, witty woman who is ahead of her time in terms of being able to think for herself.” - Barnes and Noble