Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Jan 1853 · RD Bentley

Ratings and reviews

As with the book, Emma, I hated this book. Self absorbed females who spend the entire book worried about finding a man to marry. I have read most of Austen's books and they are all the same story with different names and equally boring stories. They have no sense of themselves or what to do if they can't find a man. I know times were different then but there were plenty of self sufficient women around who did not HAVE to find a husband. Am sure people are fainting after reading that because these are supposed to be the best books ever written.

Having never before read Pride and Prejudice,I found the book to be stimulating, interesting and challenging all at the same time. The use of the old english vernacular was an insight into the ways of the people in that era. The story line was easy to follow and the adventures of all the characters continued throughout the book to keep me engaged and interested. With the interest in Jane Austen at the present time I found many interesting phrases to encourage stimulating conversation on the morals of present society.

'Pride and Prejudice' is a novel of exceptional merit in the way it unashamedly exhibits the mentality of the middle-class of the time. The heroine herself is not without a susceptibility for the material. Unlike most romances, it points out that love, without consideration for anything else, as a singular feeling, is difficult to sustain. Lizzy Bennett abhors mercenary love-less marriages but at the same time does not want to enter into matrimony with a man of meager means. The side-characters are quite wonderfully sketched, too. With the knight who felt his importance too much, the dominating mustachioed Aunt, the scorned lover, and the rest. Read it for the refreshing, unadorned and precise (Sir Walter Scott opined it was 'perfect')language and a realistic romance.