Jane Austen

Gill Tavner

Ann Kronheimer

Pride and Prejudice

Ashlyn Barrett

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

My dear Jane! You are too good. Your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic; I do not know what to say to you. I feel as if I had never done you justice, or loved you as you deserve.

Her heart was divided between concern for her sister, and resentment against all others.

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, and the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

Jillian Meehan

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Lizzy Jensen

From such a connection she could not wonder that he would shrink. The wish of procuring her regard, which she had assured herself of his feeling in Derbyshire, could not in rational expectation survive such a blow as this. She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago.

I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

If she is really headstrong and foolish, I know not whether she would altogether be a very desirable wife

I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room. 

That would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! Do not wish me such an evil!

Nothing remained therefore to be done, but to think well of them both, to defend the conduct of each, and throw into the account of accident or mistake whatever could not be otherwise explained.

My good opinion once lost, is lost forever. 

I hope I never ridicule what is wise and good. 

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.

To yield readily—easily—to the persuasion of a friend is no merit with you.

To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Nothing is more deceitful, than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

To be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

“You must comprehend a great deal in your idea of an accomplished woman”… “A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved.”

The former was divided between admiration of the brilliancy which exercise had given to her complexion, and doubt as to the occasion’s justifying her coming so far alone.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. 

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of pretty woman can bestow. 

brie

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. 

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' Thus memorably begins Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, one of the world's most popular novels. Pride and Prejudice—Austen's own 'darling child'—tells the story of fiercely independent Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters who must marry rich, as she confounds the arrogant, wealthy Mr. Darcy. What ensues is one of the most delightful and engrossingly readable courtships known to literature, written by a precocious Austen when she was just twenty-one years old.

Humorous and profound, and filled with highly entertaining dialogue, this witty comedy of manners dips and turns through drawing-rooms and plots to reach an immensely satisfying finale. In the words of Eudora Welty, Pride and Prejudice is as 'irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.'

Carol Howard, educated at SUNY Purchase and Columbia University, where she received her Ph.D. in 1999, chairs the English Department and teaches in the Theater Department at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. She has published essays on early British and contemporary African-American women writers and has coedited two books on British writers (1996, 1997). Her primary scholarly interest is the literature of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.
--back cover

Demon

Okay I got to admit: I hate almost all the characters and I hate what they did. 
BUT the book is good. I may hate the story but I got to admit the book is well-written and I kind of enjoy diving more into the characters’ complexity and details. I enjoy analyzing their actions and the consequences of it. 
It really is a good book to analyze and explore! 
I just wish I could have like the story just as much as others do but I can’t bring myself to enjoy it.
Anyway I think everyone needs to make their own opinions about the book and I hope the next readers will enjoy diving into the world of Pride & Prejudice!

Sarah Sammis

Jane Austen wasn't taught at my high school and I didn't take any English lit classes in college. I was in my mid twenties and the Jane Austen phenomena was gaining momentum. Since then I've been trying and failing to read any Austen book start to finish. That is until this year when I discovered the perfect way to read her books: audio in the car.

Pride and Prejudice is now the best known and most popular of Austen's books. When I was a teen, it was Sense and Sensibility (thanks to Clueless). P&P's current popularity is due in large part to the film adaptation Collin Firth was in.

The Bennett family is in a bit of a pickle. Mr. Bennett's financial affairs (and the house) are in the red. If he dies, the house goes to his creditor and Mrs. Bennett and their five daughters are out on the street. The only thing to do — marry off the daughters.

Jane is the oldest and most beautiful. Tradition states she should be married first to pave the way for her sisters. But there's a snag in the form of Mr. Darcy who makes an ass of himself at the first dance and thoroughly pisses of the second daughter, Elizabeth. She pegs him for being prideful but is blind to her own prejudice.

Like a modern day soap opera, the novel contrives to put Darcy and Elizabeth together in as many frustrating and embarrassing ways as possible. Eventually though the reasons behind Darcy's behavior comes out and Elizabeth softens.

Listening to the audio gave me a better appreciation for the novel. I can see why it's popular. I had a few problems with the production of the audio. The woman reading the book gave Mrs. Bennett a harpy voice. It literally set my teeth on edge.

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.

Mariana

Jane Austen is an incredible author, and this book is a masterpiece.

Po Tse

Presents a graphic novel adaptation of the novel about the courtship of the independent Elizabeth Bennet and the handsome bachelor, Mr. Darcy.

Vicky  Nuñez 

A beautiful adaptation of the classic we all know and love.

It is not a faithful adaptation, but a retelling in comic that gives it a humorous spin and will make you yearn to read the book or watch your favorite adaptation.
I really loved the art, I didn't expect them to be so manga-like, but it delivered.
The writing did felt weak at times, but I was enthralled enough to ignore it.

Really recommend it for all of those Austen fans that can get enough of the Jane Austen classic.

I received a copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

gülefşan 

Mr darcy💔💓🧚‍♀️💌💟💗💕💝💖🧚‍♀️💞💋💓💌💗💌💝💌💖💝😭🧚‍♀️🤭🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Hugo

Jane Austen should’ve gave us more details about each character’s personality.

trying audiobooks and chose pride and prejudice because it's always a treat

rain adrastea

It took me awhile to finish this novel. Not really for me; I am sorry, Ms. Jane Austen. However, I do love a Mr. Darcy for me. Where to find one, though?

Jessica Biwang

Sonia Grgas

** spoiler alert **
           second reread

a shy wealthy man who changes his whole personality for the woman he loves and secretly does things that would make her happy without ever mentioning them…this would work on me ngl

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited, while he struggles to remain indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.
--back cover

I was biased while reading because I'm a huge fan of the 2005 film, which heavily affected my reading experience. If I'd had less information on the story, I'm certain I would've loved it less. 

I enjoyed the bickering between the protagonists the most, and they didn't meet for a significant portion of the story. In the middle, there are quite a few chapters where Lizzie and Darcy have no interaction at all; chapters with long letters and characters who seem less important to the plot. It was during these chapters that my knowledge of the story pushed me to read on.  

Callas

I was biased while reading because I'm a huge fan of the 2005 film, which heavily affected my reading experience. If I'd had less information on the story, I'm certain I would've loved it less. 

I enjoyed the bickering between the protagonists the most, and they didn't meet for a significant portion of the story. In the middle, there are quite a few chapters where Lizzie and Darcy have no interaction at all; chapters with long letters and characters who seem less important to the plot. It was during these chapters that my knowledge of the story pushed me to read on.  

jack

so good, the last third especially. everything is sparkly and wonderful.

Erin Darlyn

Pride and Prejudice improves with every re-read. 
I first read it as a teenager during a summer vacation at my grandparents’ house. I loved it then and I love it even more now.

'Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat.' Spirited and impulsive, Marianne Dashwood is the complete opposite to her controlled and sensible sister, Elinor. When it comes to matters of the heart, Marianne is passionate and romantic and soon falls for the charming, but unreliable Mr Willoughby. Elinor, in contrast, copes stoically with the news that her love, Edward Ferrars is promised to another. It is through their shared experiences of love that both sisters come to learn that the key to a successful match comes from finding the perfect mixture of rationality and feeling.

mawi

<spoiler>i love the subtleness of darcy's admiration towards elizabeth it makes me go aaaaaaa</spoiler>

ghezaal noori

one of the most boring books i’ve read, I don’t understand how they ever fell in love in the first place there was literally no chemistry between them. it was just so sudden and their love was sweeping. But for the time period it was set I would say that it was a love story that made sense, but the characters were flat and uninteresting.

Kritika Narula

A TIMELESS CLASSIC
	The plot, is a simple homely, an archetypal love story- two opposing characters- priggish and somewhat supercilious Mr. Darcy and a girl of sense and spirit, Elizabeth Bennet, who seemed conflicting primordial , but as it turned out, not irreconcilably incompatible in Toto, for the plot quite convincingly journeys through their squabbles to ultimately their wedlock when pride and prejudice are, at length conquered.

	Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonists, are perchance the greatest proof that Austen, however much criticised, was far ahead of her time.

The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James and Andrew Motion.

'The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' Independent

Elizabeth Bennet is young, clever and attractive, but her mother is a nightmare and she and her four sisters are in dire need of financial security and escape in the shape of husbands. The arrival of the affable Mr Bingley and arrogant Mr Darcy in the neighbourhoos, both single and in possession of large fortunes, turns all their lives upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry, enmity and love.


Source: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1107970/pride-and-prejudice-vintage-classics-austen-series/#tzeqi0BHxJM4SVSD.99

It took me a while to finish this but ahhhh Miss Jane Austen, truly a woman's advocate. Thank you for giving us men do not exist in my time and probably didn't exist back then 😀 My standards definitely sky-rocketed.

I will try and re-read this in the future (no promises) because I feel like my cuckoo brain cannot fully comprehend classics YET but! This is very accessible, I had a fun time.

With its sparkling wit, clever heroine, and moving love story, Pride and Prejudice is an immaculate comedy of manners, and Jane Austen's most popular novel.

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.

No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it -- and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet.

We are captivated not only by the novel's romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit in its pages. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by Jane Austen's wit and feeling but by her subtle observations of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to one another and ourselves.

JANE AUSTEN (1773-1817) was born in Hampshire, England, where she spent most of her life. Though she received little recognition in her lifetime, she came to be regarded as one of the great masters of the English novel.
--back cover

camille peiffer

:,-) maybe if i hadn’t gone into the book expecting it to be focused completely on elizabeth and mr darcy i would’ve enjoyed this more

this is it. the very blueprint of all romance tropes.

anita

i love jane austen!!!!! (i have only read one book of hers atm)

audrey

Okay, okay. 

So I’ve finally gotten around to reading this book, and I’ll be honest... the first half-ish part of the book was a bit of a sore to get through, but it was definitely worth it once I reached somewhere in the hundreds. The ending was delightful and enchanting in the best ways and it kept me wrapped in wanting to know how this all ended. 

Maybe I squealed... that’s to be disclosed (haha), but I can safely say this book was, without a doubt, incredible.

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