Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice

Hardcover

Published by Worth Press Ltd.

ISBN:
9781849311328

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4.5

As someone who has read hardly any classics (if you exclude all the Shakespeare I was forced to study in school then none at all), I found this much easier to read than I was dreading. I really enjoyed the humour especially and struggled whenever it disappeared for long periods of time. There's plenty of words and phrases that I only inferred the meaning from context or just glossed over and that didn't really affect my enjoyment of the story on the whole.

I think the characters are the strongest part of the book. All the characters feel like very real people. I usually struggle with books that don't get into the heads of characters, because it makes me feel disconnected, but this is the rare case where it worked for me. I will say that there are still plenty of insights into Elizabeth's internal thoughts when necessary to …