Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Amazon.com lists this as their 8th best-selling TEEN book! I never thought of it as a teen book, except that it's often assigned in high school. Quote:Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine:...
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I hope those teens pick up some of the excellent language Austen uses. Their constant use of the same dull profanities as nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs severely limits their attempts at...
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None of our classes read it in school. Gotta admit I only read it after seeing the film of it (the Colin Firth one), which I loved. Decided to read the book and loved it, have since read Sense &...
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Beagood, very true...perhaps that vocabulary barrier is why some don't get it. To enjoy the book, one must be able to see the satire. There is an enormous resurge in Austen's popularity. I was going...
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We had to read "Pride and Prejudice" in school. I seemed to be one of only two people in my class who actually liked it, and even my mom hated it. But I was so into it that I couldn't stop reading,...
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Quote:She wrote very dreamlike stories: people get married and forget all about it, or parents forget they have children. Very interesting and somewhat similar to some of my own dreams. Where did you...
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I did mean the Juvenilia and had wondered if you'd found some in print but thanks anyway, a little search revealed some online texts.
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Forgive me, I was of the mistaken belief that "Lady Susan" was one of her juvenile works.
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I found them described in a biography. I don't believe it reproduced the manuscripts.
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Quote:Forgive me, I was of the mistaken belief that "Lady Susan" was one of her juvenile works.Not at all, actually it was me who misunderstood, I was ignorant of the fact that Lady Susan was listed...
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You guys have made me so interested in Jane Austen. I've read Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility and Emma, but now I fell the urge to look further and not only reread those but read more...
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I've never read P&P but oddly enough I came across it the other night at the bookstore and almost bought it. I think I'll go back and get it. I'd like to read it before I see the movie.
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I, too, had to read P&P in school. As a teen I was as oblivious about relationships as Elizabeth Bennett. When I first read the book I was totally caught by surprise that Mr. Darcy loved...
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