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Completed	16 October 2005
Title	Pride and Prejudice
Author	Jane Austen
Published	1813
Quote	"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
Review	What a great, readable book about English country life. I could not, though, while reading, get the nice picture of Colin Firth as Darcy out of my mind. There are worse fates. Jane wrote this book when she was 21. It was written in 1796 but published in 1813. It's just such an interesting, classic book, about the Bennett family, and Darcy, and his impressionable friend, Bingley. I enjoy reading about the social customs of days gone by. It was interesting to read of Lydia Bennett, the fifteen-year-old who eloped with Wickham, and of that event, Mr. Collins wrote, "The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison to this." In today's society we just don't have that sense of shame. I don't know if anything's really shameful anymore. Anything goes. There are just so many interesting characterizations in the book, like Darcy's sister, Georgiana. "Georgiana's reception of them was very civil; but attended with all that embarrassment which, though proceeding from shyness and the fear of doing wrong, would easily give to those who felt themselves inferior, the belief of her being proud and reserved." I give this book two knitting needles up. I loved it. I just love reading about English life, especially since I'm living here in the middle of London.

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