Pride and Pronunciation

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

368 pages

When Elizabeth Bennett first meets Mr. Darcy, a noble and esteemed bachelor, she finds him conceited and ill-mannered. She dislikes him even more when she finds he has been trying to squash the relationship between her sister Jane, and his friend Mr. Bingley. To make matters even worse, they seem to be running into each other everywhere they go. In the humorous, and dramatic events that follow, readers will be transported to early 19th century England with style and grace.

As Pride and Prejudice is one of the world's oldest novels, it has been read and loved by so many that I find it is not my place to criticize or review it. The author is long deceased, so no edits or changes can ever be made. However, I will just say this, everyone should read this book at least once in their lifetime.

As this was my first time reading it, it took me a while to get through. I had to keep looking up words like "vexation" and "vanity" for which I had to learn to pronounce, and flip to the footnotes every paragraph or so as this book was written in a time when strings of long vocabulary with a strange word ordering littered pages.

I find it quite interesting to read books written so many years ago, as you can laugh at the way things were said or done, but you also learn quite a bit as well. In Pride and Prejudice, the reader will learn about old courting methods, marriages of the 1800s, and pastimes and styles of the time.

As I stated before, Pride and Prejudice is not only a much loved British classic, but a must read for all.