Pride And Prejudice

For those who hadn't naturally gravitated towards this Jane Austen classic, Pride And Prejudice was probably heavily annotated, compulsory reading at their convent schools. Others simply curled up in bed with a bag of crisps and lost themselves willingly to the placid, airy human drama. It had none of the hysterics of Wuthering Heights or the brooding seriousness of Vanity Fair.

This one was effervescent, and the characters went through the tribulations in their life with superficial responses, no one really deeply broken by what transpired. This novel was a soap with style, an ....