Synopsis via Goodreads:
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the "most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author's works," and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as "irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be."
Everyone knows this story, and lately I've felt like everyone and their mother has been obsessed with Jane Austen. Having never read her work before, I had no idea what all the fuss is about. I still don't! This book was just okay for me. I'm not saying that because I'm a classics hater-- Wuthering Heights is one of my all-time favorites. P&P just didn't capture me, I guess. It was a fun story and I wanted to keep reading to find out what would happen, but in the end I found it to be a little disappointing. My guess is that it's probably way more amazing than I'm making it sound, but that all the hype ruined it for me and gave me ridiculous expectations. So, basically, I wasn't the biggest fan.... but I would surely recommend it to others :)
bah.
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