Pride and prejudice how many pages

I was forced to read this by my future wife. I was not, however, forced to give it 5 stars. View all 32 comments. View all 33 comments. I finally did it!!!! And I loved it!!!! View all 21 comments. Sep 18, NReads rated it it was amazing. Austen was a brilliant writer. This story is timeless. Simply beautiful. View all 8 comments. I am physically unqualified, because I could write infinite words about how much I love this book, and I type in a weird way that makes my wrists hurt so infinity is simply not going to happen.

I am emotionally unqualified, because I lack emotional intelligence when it comes to my own feelings and the idea of trying to explain how I feel about this i am currently being paid to reread this book. I am emotionally unqualified, because I lack emotional intelligence when it comes to my own feelings and the idea of trying to explain how I feel about this book is overwhelming.

I am spiritually unqualified, because of the aforementioned overwhelmed-ness. I am also unqualified generally, in the grand scheme of things, because so many people have written so intelligently about the wonderfulness of this book and I have nothing better to add. Just more rambling like this.

Definitely not that one, since the few mean comments always outweigh the far more numerous nice ones in my stupid brain. I read a lot of romance, but I almost never feel anything about it. I LOVE this book. It gives me I know. This is a lovely book. What more could you ask for?! Spoiled rotten, the lot of you. Bottom line: A dream. Jun 24, Richard Derus rated it really liked it Shelves: kindled. If your first language isn't English, or if you're like nine years old, you might not know the story.

Note use of conditional. My Review : All right. All right, dammit! I re-read the bloody thing. I gave it two stars before. I was wrong-headed and obtuse and testosterone poisoned. I refuse to give it five stars, though. Look, I've admitted I was wrong about how beautiful the wr Well-loathed books I've re-read Rating: 4 very annoyed, crow-feathered stars out of five The Book Report : No.

Look, I've admitted I was wrong about how beautiful the writing is, and how amusing the story is. Don't push. Stephen Sullivan, who rated this with six stars of five, is now on a summer travel break from Goodreads, so I can publish this admission: He was right.

It is a wonderful book. I had to grow into it, much as I had to grow into my love for Mrs. But now that I'm here, I am a full-on fan. Deft is a word that seems to have been created for Austen. She writes deftly, she creates scenes deftly. She isn't, despite being prolix to a fault, at all heavy-handed or nineteenth-century-ish in her long, long, long descriptions.

She is the anti-Dickens: Nothing slapdash or gimcrack or brummagem about her prose, oh nay nay nay. Words are deployed, not flung or splodged or simply wasted. The long, long, long sentences and paragraphs aren't meant to be speed-read, which is what most of us do now. The romantic elements seem, at first blush, a wee tidge trite. And they are. Why are they? Because, when Miss Jane first used them in Pride and Prejudice , they worked brilliantly and they continue so to do unto this good day.

Because these are real feelings expressed in a real, genuine, heartfelt way, as constrained by the customs of the country and times. And isn't that, in the end, what makes reading books so delicious? I, a fat mean old man with no redeeming graces, a true ignorant lower-class lout of the twenty-first century, am in full contact with the mind, the heart, the emotional core of a lady of slender means born during the reign of George III.

You tell me what, on the surface of this earth, is more astonishing, more astounding, more miraculous than that. She's Had A Moment with literally millions of English-speakers for over years. She's had moments with non-English speakers for more than a century. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are cultural furniture for a large percentage of the seven billion people on the planet. Large here is a relative term.

Less than one? Still amazing for a book years old. Reading is traveling in time, in space, but most importantly inside. Inside yourself, inside the characters' emotions, inside the author's head and heart. It is a voyage of discovery, whether you're reading some bizarro mess, Dan Brown's mess, religious tracts, Twilight , whatever. You-the-reader are going somewhere in a more intimate contact than you-the-reader have with any other being on the planet.

Movies, TV, sex, none of them take you as deep into the essence of feeling and emotion as reading does. And no, snobs, it does NOT matter if it's well written, it matters that the book speaks to the reader. Sometimes, of course, what one learns is how very shallow and vapid some people are I'm lookin' at you, Ms. Fifty Shades. So I thank that rotten, stinkin' Stephen-the-absent Sullivan, safe in the knowledge he won't see me admitting this, for reminding me to live up to my own goal of remaining open to change.

I heard him yodeling his rapture, and I revisited the book, and I learned something valuable: Only admit you're wrong when the person you don't want to embarrass yourself in front of isn't around to see. View all 94 comments. Nov 15, Anne rated it it was amazing Shelves: classics , chick-lit , read-in , favorites , romance , audio. Colin Firth is the only Mr. That other Mr. Darcy was horrible! No, no, no, no, nooooo! Make it stop. So, quite obviously, the BBC miniseries in all its minute glory is the only version that is acceptable.

The other movie was such a travesty to this book, that I wept big, fat, angry tears Or maybe I'm exaggerating slightly. What were they thinking?! You don't mess with perfecti Mr. You don't mess with perfection! What did you think, Elizabeth? I'm kidding.

Sort of. Anyway, instead of reading it this time around, I listened to an audiobook version. Apparently, which audio version you listen to makes a difference. My real-life BFF said her version had an American doing British accents and she found it terribly annoying. I, however, had a version with an actual lady from the land of tea 'n crumpets, and she did a fine job. Well, she did have this lounge singer ish voice, so instead of sounding like a fresh-faced 20 year old, Elizabeth sounded like she had been smoking 3 packs a day for about 40 years.

Eh, I was ok with it. I kept imagining Lizzie with a cigarette dangling from her lips like a truck stop hooker, and it gave the story a fresh perspective. I've read this so many times over the years that I've lost count, but I still wish I could go back and read it for the first time all over again.

I hated that stupid, arrogant, arse-faced Mr. Darcy when he first showed up at the ball. What a prick! So, just like Lizzie, I remember being shocked at his proposal. And just like Lizzie, I was horrified by the way he dissed her family while he did it! And how could he think she would ever agree to marry him after the way he convinced Bingley that Jane didn't love him?!

And the way he treated poor Wickham! Just who did this guy think he was! But then The Letter! Oh, my! Well, that certainly put a different spin on things didn't it?! So kind Ok, I've probably read that particular scene at Pemberley a million times.

Sometimes, I would just pick up and start the book from there. Total comfort food. It's just Of course, Lydia has to go and ruin everything! How could she be such a stupid, selfish, uncaring twat!? I mean, Darcy and Elizabeth Oh, the feelings! I just Critics who consider Austen's works trivial because of their rigid, upper-class setting, wealthy characters, domestic, mannered plots and happy endings are almost totally disconnected from reality, as far as I can tell.

What can they possibly expect an upper-middle class English woman to write about in but what she knows or can imagine? A history of the American Revolution? Come on. What other setting can Critics who consider Austen's works trivial because of their rigid, upper-class setting, wealthy characters, domestic, mannered plots and happy endings are almost totally disconnected from reality, as far as I can tell.

What other setting can she be expected to tackle with authority? Austen's value lies in her portraiture: her characters are believably human in their concerns, vanities, failings and quirks. The plots serve largely to showcase their interaction and thus, her observations of human nature, which are pointed, accurate, and hysterical.

Here, in her best work my opinion , her technical skill as a writer also shows in Pride and Prejudice 's tight plotting and economical casting; there are no superfluous characters or wasted chapters here.

My college lit professor used to go on and on about this novel as a revolution of literary form in that dialogue drives the plot as much as exposition; I'll buy that but it doesn't thrill me for its own sake as much as it did her. It does mean, though, that Pride and Prejudice is a relatively smooth and lively read, that we learn about events and characters as much from what they say to each other as from what Austen narrates to us.

Austen's heroines are famously caught between love and money are famously criticized for always getting both in the end. I've got no problem with this wish fulfillment. Keep in mind that being married is basically the only possible 'job' available to a woman of her position--marrying a rich dude is the only viable escape from the life of poor-relation dependency Austen herself lived, there's nothing reactionary or anti-feminist about it.

The other option--becoming a governess--is barely respectable, putting a woman into an ambiguous class limbo of social invisibility that translates directly into a loss of safety and self-governance. Expecting Elizabeth to, what, become a doctor?

Pride and Prejudice is simply a joy to read, a dance of manners and affection between the leads and a parade of human silliness in the supporting cast. Generously illustrated with color and black-and-white sketches, engravings, and reproductions of earlier editions, household objects, relevant artwork, contemporary cartoons, diagrams and fashion plates.

I was, perhaps, impatient. At some point as I yanked my eyes back to the pages I kept trying to read, I realized: Spacks is a Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia--my former stomping grounds wahoo-wa! So, grain of salt: I may have some kind of baggage here. Some footnotes are simple definitions, or style notes: some are mini-essays that include their own cited references. Spacks includes centuries of Austen scholarship in her notes, not just contemporaries, so points of view vary widely.

Two tidbits I liked: first, a primary source. One note, in discussing the complicated British class system of the day, refers to a table constructed by one Patrick Colquhoun in his A Treatise on the Wealth, Power and Resources of the British Empire, in Every Quarter of the World 2nd ed. Clearly people put a lot of time and effort into codifying and arguing about societal structure, status and behavior, and I think that would be a fascinating thing to read.

Another note I lingered over involves Mr. Collins, a character we love to hate. Also, Spacks has a lot to say about Elizabeth's inconsistency and lack of generosity towards Charlotte Lucas--traits I'd noticed in past readings without following through to some of their logical conclusions and their connections with Elizabeth's later behavior. Definitely worth the purchase price! Add it to your collection, but don't make it your only copy, since it's hard to tuck under your pillow.

View all 23 comments. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. View all 7 comments. Society, with all its restrictive constructs, is one nasty piece of work.

It comes with so many silly rules, so many silly expectations. But what of love? What of passion? Should it be quenched because of these all-encompassing silly constructs?

Enter Darcy, a man who is royally pis Society, with all its restrictive constructs, is one nasty piece of work. Enter Darcy, a man who is royally pissed off; he has fallen in love with someone considered far beneath him, to declare his love for her is to step outside the realms of his supposed pedigree: it is a form of social death. So he is a man torn in two. At the route of things, he is a product of his society; consequently, he is affected by its values. Although he hates it all the same; thus, the long sullen silences, the seemingly moody and arrogant exchanges with Elizabeth.

It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. So the romance plot is born. Darcy loses his integrated construct of prejudice and ignores the pride of his relatives. So love conquers all. But she only believes in real love. For her, such things transcend class boundaries, wealth and intelligence. Love is love. She knows how stupid it is, and she loves to poke fun of her caricatures of the old stilted class of her era: the ones that resist her ideas.

Is this the best Austen? For me it lacks the moral growth of Northanger Abbey and Emma. It lacks the conciseness of Persuasion. The emphasis on the injustice of romance has made it popular, though I do strongly believe that the love in Persuasion is stronger than it is here. That endures rejection, separation, war and decades; yet, it still lingers. I hope to continue to do so.

View all 15 comments. Shelves: littry-fiction , my-summer-of-classix. I don't think I will ever be able to properly explain my obsession with this book. Jane Austen renders a beautiful display of English country life in the early s and the complexity of ordinary people — all their vanities, their flaws and their quirks. The writing is lush and descriptive with a slow melting pace filled with subtle humour, sarcasm and witty banter. The absurdities of the secondary characters are what kept the plot light and fun.

But none are like Mr Collins. This man never fails to astound me with his silliness. The things he said were half ridiculously funny and the other half of the time I just wanted to smack him. Something I always find extremely entertaining in these types of classics is the underhanded savagery delivered through a facade of polite smiles and impeccable manners.

I greatly enjoyed it once I got used to reading the annotations. Nice list,Laurel-I also have the Modern Library edition as well as the Penguin Classics the non deluxe one and the Annotated,which is extremely extensive! That last one I bought during my one and only trip to England so far,anyway in a little bookshop at Lyme Regis.

And so I thought I knew enough of the historical background and daily facts social standings, money equivalents, food, etc. Reading now with the Anchor annotated edition has made a tremendous difference and enhanced my pleasure immeasurably.

I sometimes disagree with the opinion and analysis, but that just makes it more fun, almost like having a teacher and a book club all in one. Nice list! My dad laughed at me when I bought it, but I really and truly love it. I loved the list. I love my annotated version best.

But I have two others. I love the cover detail espescially that you gave. What a great list! Everytime I go to the bookstore I take a few minutes and look for any new cover that strikes my fancy. Lovely list, Laurel Ann! I personally love the Annotated version of Pride and Prejudice.

I love how the entire novel is on the left hand of the page and the annotations are on the right hand side of the novel — that way you are not constantly flipping to the back. I also love knowing more about the context and little things about the Victorian Age. No commentary or notes whatsoever. Just the pure old English language I barely understood. But it was in that way that I understood bit by bit the story through rereading it for a couple of times. You can say, self taught. I might give in and buy!

That must depend upon the binding. The illustrations are hilarious! Hugh Thomson definitely had a sense of humor. The first two for the cover art, the last two for the extra content… must balance vanity with the improvement of my mind by extensive reading! I must add that I bought the Jane Austen app for my iPhone. I have to admit, I really do like the cover of the penguin deluxe edition.

However my favorite edition is the new penguin classics one with the yellow cover. While the yellow does tend to look a little garish, the fabric lining the novel is reminiscent of an older time. Her commentary on the ins and outs of the postal service and correspondence conventions of the period is interesting, and having the letters, especially some of the key letters, is a lot of fun. Like Liked by 1 person.

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