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Read Aloud Virginia - Book Store - Pride and Prejudice

List Price: $12.95
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Manufacturer: Topeka Bindery

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Binding: School & Library Binding
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.7
EAN: 9780785754879
ISBN: 0785754873
Label: Topeka Bindery
Manufacturer: Topeka Bindery
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 332
Publication Date: 1999-10
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Studio: Topeka Bindery

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Editorial Reviews:
It's time to rediscover the wonderful books we all cherish. Originally published anonymously in 1813, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is one of the most widely read and most popular novels in the English language. The courtship between the independent Elisabeth Bennett and the handsome yet arrogant Mr. Darcy illuminates the page in this wonderful novel of comedy and manners.

Spotlight customer reviews:

Customer Rating:

Summary: best Austen novel - so far
Comment: After seeing a number of adaptations, I finally decided to read all of
Austen's novels. Northanger Abbey was not bad, and Sense and Sensibility
is excellent. However, this is the best so far. While there is a lot of
insightful comment on the custom of English society of the time, and
discussion of the character's motivation, the book just sparkles during
the interchanges between them. While those between Elizabeth
and Mr. Darcy are justifiably famous, I would say that many of the others
are at the same level. My favorite are perhaps the interchanges between
Lady Catherine and Elizabeth. I am very much looking forward to reading
the remaining three completed novels.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Drivel
Comment: This is a terrible novel. I was expecting a "classic" when I read this and the only reason that I can think of for this book to be considered a classic is because it was written by a woman at a time when women were repressed in society. The plot is shallow. It is simply a love story with a few hints of irony thrown in. The characters are very unlikable. In fact, I hate the characters because they are shallow and self-centered. Also, Austen clearly never learned that readers do not like run-on sentences because the so called "novel", consists of run-on sentences that sometimes consist of more than one page. Austen also describes everything way too much, when one sentence is clearly enough. This novel is complete trash, and I really regret having to read it for my literature class. I could have simply read the celebrity tabloids, and I would have been exposed to as informative and moving of a story as this piece of trash.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Clasic Romance Novel
Comment: Jane Austen is an amazing author! I loved this book. I got a little frustrated with it sometimes, but I'm very glad I decided to keep reading it. Pride and Prejudice will always be a clasic. I plan on reading the rest of Jane Austen's books also. Highly recommended.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Beautiful Classic
Comment: This book is a timeless and beloved classic. It's a beautiful story of class in Jane Austen's time that appeals to us today because it is so well-wrtitten. It's scrupulously clean morally, and I would recommend it to anyone who appreciates the time when love stories were wholesome and pure and touching. All the characters have an appeal that's makes you appreciate the way they fit into the story.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Worth paying for on the Kindle
Comment: Kindle owners hopefully are aware of the wealth of free editions of the classics which are available through Feedbooks and other sources.

I obtained a copy of P&P from feedbooks originally and while it was easy to get and the price was right, the overall quality of the text is not great. I've found several typos, presumably the result of OCR errors and it's somewhat distracting.

Since P&P is one of my wife's favorite books, I was delighted to see
Penguin had released an electronic edition for $0.50 complete with the usual footnotes, essays and maps that one's used to
finding in textbook editions of the classics.

The table of contents is pretty minimal. The headings include the editor's material, and the three volume headings.

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