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"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 o constantly mentioned por many of the novelist's present-day fans. And one of the four happens to be the movie adapted in 1940 por Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Directed por 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 por a distant male cousin. For years, this version...

SOCIAL CLASS AND THE BENNET FAMILY IN "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

Considering how long I have been a fan of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel, "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" and its numerous televisión and movie adaptations, I am surprised that I have never considered something about its heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, and her family. Ever since I have been lectura numerous artículos about the novel and its adaptations, I have noticed that many have labeled the Bennet family as members of the middle-class o the upper middle-class in Regency England. And it finally occurred to me that many of these fans were in error.


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from the Huffington Post:

I've published twenty libros in genres from memoir to mystery but I never thought of doing an Austen mashup until I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

While I enjoyed Zombies at first because it was surprising and funny, eventually it started to feel like a one-note protest against all the decorous PBS Austen series and all the die-hard Austen fans around the world. Dude, forget carriages and bonnets, gimme brains!

Zombies reads like graffiti, which can be ugly o beautiful depending on your point of view. tu see that división, split on amazon.com, where half the reviewers give...