The most fun Jane Austen had while writing... Review on Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austin

Though I admire Persuasion best for it's plot, Pride & Prejudice is my favorite book of Jane Austen's to read. The humor represented and the witty banter are pure enjoyment. I never get tired of reading it and done so about twice a year since 1988, when I got a copy of it for my birthday.

The scene between Lady Catherine and Elizabeth is the most fun and intelligent in the entire book. In the middle of several sentances one is tempted to stand up and yell out "You tell her!" I found that in a library, however, that this is rather frowned upon.

I wish folks still spoke that way; I think that brain power and grey cells would be far more developed if we had to come up with similar speeches on a moment's notice and fathom such speeches spoken to us just as quickly. Not to mention every vocabulary would be far more broad.

Elizabeth is spunky and respectable, if not a bit prideful of her own intelligence. She learns from her mistakes, however which is, in my opinion, the best part of the story. In my own life, I have learned from Elizabeth Bennet that humility is a bitter pill to swallow but it enhances your health and lifts your spirirt once the lesson is learned. It arms you against future mistakes, like a highly shined sheild that grows in width over the years.

Darcy is much like my husband in many respect, though Darcy had most things simply handed to him. I like very much the sage, saturnine manner the character expresses himself in, simply acting the part of a mouch older man, all the time. Indeed his brain appears quite over-developed and is miles ahead of most folk's much of the time. The way his likes Elizabeth's playfulness I find completely believable, since that is what my man said he liked about me. Great beauty or wealth aside, the two characters in P&P enjoy each other's company, though they don't wish to admit it at first.

Not quite a Cinderella story, as Darcy will have a laothsome, tedious mother in law, though he is quite able to inspire nervous fear in her simple mind. Mr. Bennet is by far the most humorous character; he earns many accolades for directing his prior poor choice of a wife into harmless, but intellectually stimulating, remarks replete with satire.

Jane Austen inspired me to write; my husband encouraged me and because of this book we both saw that one can indeed write an elegant, tasteful romance. and so with a measure of intelligence.