Name: Vojtech's review of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Item: Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen

Gill Tavner

Ann Kronheimer

Pride and Prejudice

Ashlyn Barrett

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. 

There are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.  

It is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded. 

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. 

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. 

He is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him. 

To take the good of everybody’s character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone. 

Vojtech

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.

Emily Akerman

Chloe Garcia

4.5 mostly because there were some parts where i wasn’t fully sure what was going on

actually i change my mind i remembered the last three chapters and feel obligated to give it 5 stars

camila mirrorball 

a wonderful read, eloquent and immersive, even already knowing the story, I was completely absorbed in this book. The romance was so exciting the entire read.

Shannon G

Hannah Yang

I don't think Pride and Prejudice needs a review—so I will just say that if you haven't read it yet, you must. It's hilarious at times and poignant at others, it's entertaining and easy to read, and Austen is incredible when it comes to describing her characters' feelings and reflections. Plus, can you ask for a better love story or better character arcs?

Pride and prejudice

Olivier Betil

Marjolein Bastin

kels

Sara Uribe

Oh boy!

I cannot tell you how many times I’ve picked up this book to just start reading it and put it right back down. I have been dying to read this book (it’s been on my “to read” list forever) and many people have told me how much they love it. Picking up this book and trying to read it was absolutely excruciating for me. But I persevered, all thanks to the audiobook. Once I was able to listen to somebody else read the story to me, it was much easier for me to comprehend what was going on.

Jane Austen is a literary mastermind. A few times at the beginning of the book I often said to myself “why is this phrased this way or that way and why did she use that word?”, Everything just felt so complex and I wasn’t really grasping on what was going on. As I continue through the book, I started to understand more of what was going on. I finally understood why Jane wrote the way she did. She knows how and what to say and she does it so poetically at the same time. The writing couldn’t have been better.

As for the overall story I really enjoyed Elizabeth. She is my absolute favorite character in this book. She’s not going to bow down to any man who comes her way. She is very much her own person and will tell you how she feels whether you like it or not. As for Darcy, he’s a gentleman, smart, strong and knows what his values are. Though he comes off to others as rude, arrogant and somewhat unbearable to be around. Inside he is a good man. As they live through the story they begin to find that the very things that agitate them apart, become the very aspects that draw them together.

If it were not for the audiobook I don’t think I would have gone through this at all! It was way easier for me to listen to this book then physically reading it myself. If you are struggling to get through this book like I was I highly suggest you get your hands on the audiobook version of it.

Solid ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars from me! How can I not?

Barbara Williford

I am a big Jane Austen fan but have never read this book. It is a must read! Star crossed lovers who got off to a rough start with both their pride and their own prejudice for the other. I enjoyed all the events that eventually brought them together with regards to their misunderstandings of each other. I loved Elizabeth’s frankness, unwilling time back down and the candor at which she spoke which was unthinkable at that time from a lady.

Anushka Saha

Sharp, witty, and fun to read. A good portrayal of the English gentile society of the countryside that I have no business with but was a fun read regardless.

Traci Wilbanks

A book about good manners and romance. That's it. Lots of ladies in drawing rooms talking about schemes and dances. All things lead to landing a husband, and when that happens, all is right with the world. Blech! I imagine that it was mildly scandalous at the time to read a head-strong woman's thoughts. Only finished the book so that I could comment confidently that it is a waste of time.

Jane Austen Children's Stories (Easy Classics)

Briar's Reviews

This is a lovely little children's adaptation of the very famous Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

I was so thrilled to see an adaption of this novel! I absolutely love retellings of classics. This book makes Pride and Prejudice easier to read - it not only is designed for younger readers, but it also has pictures. I think this book has quite the charm for summarizing the book and making it fun. I'm sure at least a few readers will be interested enough to pick up the classic.

Four out of five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sweet Cherry Publishing for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange of an honest review.

It's so sweet! The development and story is so very pretty. It's also a great book for vocabulary. The writing is elegant✨️

akshita

cyndi petronel

With clever and witty prose, comical characters, and an engaging plot, Austen created a timeless classic that continues to inspire new works and enchant readers. 

Brandon

Sabrina<3

** spoiler alert **
           Love a good slow burn romance although the ending feels a little anticlimactic with just a description of every characters future

Wilde

Reading this it's quite easy to see what all the fuss is about. Probably the best romance novel I've read so far.

Jenny Vuu

I started reading this with little interest and now that I’ve finished I am intrigued. No doubt that the novel was beautifully written and I just adored Elizabeth and Mr Darcy !

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

Es ésta la novela más popular de Jane Austen (1775-1817), considerada por la mayor parte de los críticos como una obra maestra. En ella, todos los elementos del equilibrado y sobrio arte de la escritora alcanzan su mejor expresión. La obra debe gran parte de su popularidad al brío y a la agudeza con que son creados algunos personajes cómicos, como el amenísimo pastor Collins, uno de los figurones más célebres de la literatura inglesa. 
Con unos pocos y sencillos rasgos, Jane Austen traza unas figuras tan eficaces, que alcanzan un relieve que las hace inolvidables.

Orgullo y prejuicio

Carmen

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s witty comedy of manners—one of the most popular novels of all time—that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the “most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author’s works,” and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as “irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.”
--back cover

I will never forget this book. I was worried, as this is the first I’ve read by Austen, that her style might be too proper to push through, however I found it infrequent that I struggled with a sentence, and that when I did I was not even inconvenienced for wanting to understand every part of the story. The story which I am enamored with. Mr. Darcy, being selfish and cut-off and expecting the world to know of his goodness (me) and Elizabeth with her inability to hold near her convictions and who often thinks herself as clever even when the word is undeserved (also me). I fully comprehend its place amongst the classics, and after taking a few hours to watch the movie, I will surely need to return to another Austen book soon.

Emily McMeans

Tish

Really unpopular opinion here I think but to me this was just.... okay. I found myself zoning out a lot and I didn’t care to go back. I dunno maybe classic novels just aren’t my thing, the last 10% of the book was pretty nice though.

Dei sei romanzi di Jane Austen, scrittrice che Virginia Woolf ha definito "l'artista più perfetta tra le donne", Orgoglio e pregiudizio è il primo in ordine di tempo e insieme il capolavoro. Quando lo scrisse, la Austen aveva ventun anni e un'amica di famiglia l'aveva definita "la più graziosa, sciocca, leziosa farfalla in cerca di marito che sia dato incontrare". Frivola e ironica, non si distingueva dal mondo campagnolo e borghese cui apparteneva, fatto di tè, balli flirt e della buona società, minuti e ridicoli incidenti della vita quotidiana. Ma su questi tenui motivi sapeva giocare con una grazia e una profondità uniche. Ed è così che, narrando in Orgoglio e pregiudizio la storia delle cinque sorelle Bennet e dei loro corteggiatori, riesce a evocare, con tocchi sobri e precisi, l'intero, incantevole, penetrante quadro della provincia inglese alla fine del Settecento.

Orgoglio e pregiudizio

Silvia Lucchini

Ammetto che questo non è il mio genere e probabilmente continuerà a rimanere tale, tuttavia questo libro è l'eccezione che conferma la regola. Ammetto di aver iniziato la lettura già con l'idea (il pregiudizio, se vogliamo) che non mi sarebbe piaciuto, non perchè non fosse scritto bene ma essenzialmente perchè preferisco generi più dinamici e meno concentrati sulla parte puramente sentimentale. E sicuramente questo libro è proprio così: statico, lento e romantico (si intende la corrente artistica) fino al midollo.
Confesso che il mio odio per "Cime tempestose" non ha aiutato in questo senso, tuttavia "Orgoglio e pregiudizio" è stato una piacevole sorpresa: a differenza del primo, qui abbiamo un libro leggero, ironico, che modella e approfondisce personaggi unici. Mi hanno fatto molto ridere quelli dei coniugi Bennet e, a volte, anche il povero Mr. Collins. Tuttavia, sicuramente il personaggio più interessante e moderno, soprattutto per l'epoca, è quello di Elizabeth, che ho adorato.
Come anticipato, soprattutto fino a metà libro, il racconto è abbastanza statico e tutto si muove con lentezza, anche se questo si può ricollegare alla società e al tipo di vita dell'800 inglese. Infatti, il libro ne scatta una precisa fotografia, dai balli ai vestiti, dalla posizione della donna alla smania di trovare marito. Il tutto incorniciato da un'elegante e raffinata scrittura che ho apprezzato molto.

Che dire? Una trama alla quale personalmente non darei più di 3 stelle, ma non si può rimanere indifferenti alla scrittura della Austen, ai balli inglesi, ai personaggi e a un finale forse banale ma che un po' ci fa tutte sognare (chi non vorrebbe un Mr. Darcy accanto a sé?).
Sicuramente un ottimo comfort book, che rileggerò.

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Bilge Ince

I decided that I’m not enjoying romance book even a bit since I didn’t enjoy a bit until the first half. After Lydia’s rouser I started to amuse.

Cute slow burn romance, good character development, nice family dynamics.

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