"PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" (1940) Review

There have been at least eight adaptations of "Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen's 1813 novel. But as far as I know, only four are well known 또는 constantly mentioned 의해 many of the novelist's present-day fans. And one of the four happens to be the movie adapted in 1940 의해 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Directed 의해 Robert Z. Leonard, "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" told the story of the five unmarried daughters of a 19th century English landowner and the efforts of his shrill wife to get them married before his estate is inherited 의해 a distant male cousin. For years, this version...

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."—Chapter 1, P&P

Don’t judge a book 의해 it’s cover…its 제목 may give the readers a different connotation of what this book is really about. It may give the readers an idea of discrimination, fury, preconception 또는 judgment, but on the contrary Pride and Prejudice is simply just the greatest 사랑 story of all time.

Pride and Prejudice, written 의해 Jane Austen, revolves around the courtship and marriage among the noble in the 19th century. Its main characters are the...

"LOST IN AUSTEN" (2008) Review

I must admit that I am usually not a 팬 of novels 또는 any other forms of storytelling that are based upon 또는 continuations of published works of the origin author. This is certainly the case for the numerous works (sans two) based upon Jane Austen's six published novels.

The 2008 miniseries, "LOST IN AUSTEN" is not based upon any particular Austen novel that was not written 의해 the Georgian Era writer. Instead, it is the brainchild of screenwriter Guy Andrews. The latter created this fantasy-comedy, which is an adaptation of Austen's novel, "Pride and Prejudice"...