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Pride and Prejudice
I bought several of these books for Christmas presents this year. They arebeautiful and the built-in ribbon marker is an added bonus!!
Pride and Prejudice
I shopped around for a good copy of Pride and Prejudice for a long time before coming across this one. I ordered Pride and prejudice and Jane Eyre. I recieved them yesterday and was very please with them. The pictures do not do them justice. They are gorgeous. I was afraid they would not be very durable, but they are very sturdy and the paper used for the pages is nice and thick. I wanted to find copies of my favorite classics that I can have for a long time and that would hold up to many re-reads and that is exactly what I have found in these. It doesn't hurt that they look great on the boofshelf either. I am also very glad that I ordered them from amazon and not from someone else (I did see them on a few other sites, for full price) because the price was amazing and they arrived properly packaged and in perfect condition with not a single flaw or bent corner, which happens easily to hard covers. I can't wait to order the rest of these beautiful penguine classics!
Pride and Prejudice
I have read this novel 6 times and I never get bored of this novel! It seems every time I read this novel that I realize something new about the characters that Jane Austen so cleverly created and what's more is that I enjoy the novel each time as much as I did the first time I read it!! I would definitely recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys a great classic with whitty characters and an excellent love story.
Pride and Prejudice
A friend of mine knew that I was working my way through the classics that I didn't read in school, and got me a copy of P&P; for Christmas. Personnally I think this is one of the best works Jane Austen came out with! It took a couple of pages for me to adjust to the antique english, but once I did, I loved immersing myself in a culture long gone. Once or twice I even caused my husband's brows to raise when I accidentally answered him in Olde English!Austen gives just enough detail (thankfully not enough to bore you), allows her main characters to be fallible, and whisks you off into a tale that is wonderfully wrapped up at the very end. None of that here's-the-last-page-sorry-you-still-have-questions nonsense (fine for a series, but definately not a stand-alone)!If you too are looking for an extremely well-written, entertaining classic with a happy ending, don't let all the collegiate level stuff scare you! Give yourself a chance to get used to the old phrases, and give P&P; a chance!A.L. TravisAuthor of The Pillar of Light: The Legends of Milana Series[..]
Pride and Prejudice
Ah, what girl doesn't want Mr. Darcy to marry them? I have to admit, as and avid Austen fan, I'm a bit obsessed with this one. One cannot come upon better characters than the beautiful and witty (way to be a smart girl!) Elizabeth Bennet, and the tall, brooding, but devilishly handsome (not to mention exceptionally rich) Mr. Darcy. And of course, what better way to start off a romance than with two characters who hate eachother? And Austen does it complete justice--for we all know that they can't stay disgusted for long! However, did we ever expect Lizzy to actually refuse a man who has ten thousand pounds a year? Heck yes! And that's why we love her. I've never come across an author better able to create stunning characters than Miss Jane Austen herself. She's timeless. I highly recommend this book to every person who comes across it. Pride and Prejudice merits the title of MY FAVORITE piece of literature ever written!
Pride and Prejudice
One reviewer (Jane Stewart) thanked me for my input on the "revised" setting of P&P. My reasoning came after my desire to have the setting be the end of the beautiful 18th Century - not the industrialized 19th. Jane Austen wrote the book in 1796, and it was published 17 years later, but it was the SAME book, and she naturally wrote about her time period. So I deducted 17 years from 1813, which equals 1796. (Note: An astute reviewer on Amazon also pinpointed the timeframe of 1794-1796 with a French action that Jane Austen mentioned, related to P&P.)