Pride and Prejudice (Novel)

ThazzarBaal

ThazzarBaal

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I did not read the novel. I attempted to read the novel. I was 17 and It was for my last and final grade in highschool. The one that literally set the stage for graduation. No cap and gown ever I wore, it rest nicely on a hanger on my closet door.

I burned them with fire and with that bitter pill swallowed, I skipped graduation day and made that day to be hallowed.

I may pick it up again one day and complete the assignment.

Has anyone ever read it?
 
ThazzarBaal said:
I did not read the novel. I attempted to read the novel. I was 17 and It was for my last and final grade in highschool. The one that literally set the stage for graduation. No cap and gown ever I wore, it rest nicely on a hanger on my closet door.

I burned them with fire and with that bitter pill swallowed, I skipped graduation day and made that day to be hallowed.

I may pick it up again one day and complete the assignment.

Has anyone ever read it?
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Many people, obviously or it would not be regarded as a classic. I have read it, but perhaps like you too young to grasp the point, really. I should probably re read it now, with 70 years experience of life behind me.

I have been reading Dickens and enjoying him far more than I did when I was a young man. I expect the same will be true of Austen. But her stuff is of a certain time and a particular social milieu, which can make it less readily accessible to modern readers. Whereas Dickens is later, quite modern in style and he writes about all classes of people, so a much broader sweep of humanity.
 
exchemist said:
Many people, obviously or it would not be regarded as a classic. I have read it, but perhaps like you too young to grasp the point, really. I should probably re read it now, with 70 years experience of life behind me.

I have been reading Dickens and enjoying him far more than I did when I was a young man. I expect the same will be true of Austen. But her stuff is of a certain time and a particular social milieu, which can make it less readily accessible to modern readers. Whereas Dickens is later, quite modern in style and he writes about all classes of people, so a much broader sweep of humanity.
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That was the more productive approach for me. I actually started doing that not long after I was through with college. I'd go in a book store to the classics section, read a bit and decide who I found interesting and who I found less so. I didn't really care for the style of Faulkner so I read little of his works, I read a lot by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy but I didn't read War and Peace because it just wasn't worth the read (to me). I didn't want to read a 1,000 page soap opera.

If you are OCD and your plan is to read every classic, that's more about the OCD:) I took your approch for years though and it is a good approach IMO.
 
Jane Austen was a genius. The modern form of the novel wouldn't exist, were it not for her.

Extra kudos to her for achieving everything she achieved from within the rigid confines of a society in which women of intellect had so few opportunities to make their mark.
 
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