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From School Library Journal

April 12, 2024

Gr 7 Up-Austen's novel details young woman Elizabeth Bennet's evolution as she discovers what it means to love and be loved and navigates her place in society. Set at the turn of the 19th century, the novel centers around the romance between Elizabeth and landed gentry Fitzwilliam Darcy, while exploring topics like family lineage, pride, and social class. This novel is deemed a classic for its themes of women's empowerment, expression, and the need to survive. It could be an entry point for educators and students to explore these still-relevant issues within the context of the book's historical time and compare them with the present. Elizabeth and Darcy's love story has become a longtime classic due to Austen's wit and understanding of the human condition. As Austen's most well-known work, it is relatable to young people and adults alike.VERDICT A Regency-era, satirical romance with themes that have stood the test of time. A staple for all teen collections.-Ashley Leffel & Darius Phelps

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From Publisher's Weekly

June 4, 2018
Collagist Fabe adds flair to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice with 39 original illustrations that accompany the unabridged text. Fabe's collages overlay bright, watercolor-washed scenes with retro cut-paper figures and objects sampled from fashion magazines from the 1930s to the '50s. Accompanying each tableau is a quote from the Pride and Prejudice passage that inspired it. Like Austen's book, Fabe's work explores arcane customs of beauty and courtship, pageantry and social artifice: in one collage, a housewife holds a tray of drinks while a man sits happily with a sandwich in hand in the distance. While tinged with irony and more than a dash of social commentary, the collages nevertheless have a spirit of glee and evidence deep reverence for the novel. As Fabe describes in a preface, Austen "was a little bit meanâ€"the way real people are meanâ€"so there are both heroes and nincompoops. Family is both beloved and annoying. That is Austen's genius, her ability to describe people in all their frailty and humor." This is a sweet and visually appealing homage.

From Library Journal

February 1, 1996
Austen is the hot property of the entertainment world with new feature film versions of Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility on the silver screen and Pride and Prejudice hitting the TV airwaves on PBS. Such high visibility will inevitably draw renewed interest in the original source materials. These new Modern Library editions offer quality hardcovers at affordable prices.

From AudioFile Magazine

Juliet Stevenson delivers Austen's lovely prose with the grace and intelligence that it deserves. Most of the novel moves at a stately pace, even the most emotional peaks of the love story, and Stevenson delivers it with the measured cadence it demands. She isn't quite as strong when speaking the male dialogue, but when she's speaking as any of the female characters--especially the silly, breathy ones like Lydia or Mrs. Bennet--she strikes the perfect tone. However, this abridgment leaves much to be desired. Some of Austen's wittiest lines are cut, and so much is lost from some interactions that several characters come off far more flatly than written. G.T.B. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine