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Review: Pride and Prejudice

Title : Pride and Prejudice Author : Jane Austen First published : 1813 My edition : Collector's Library, 2003 Cover : To be honest, I'm not really a fan of dust jackets. I know they are meant to project the book, but most of the time they just get in the way. They always slide a bit, which makes them crumple, which makes you concentrate on how to hold your book, instead of focusing on what is in the book. Futhermore, a dust jacket hides the beautiful linnen cover beneath it! Look at the beautiful red cover, with the title and author in gold and the embossed logo of the publisher! It is not really visible on the photo, but the red colour is a really perfect deep dark red. Innerwork : The lines and pages have an agreeable length, the font that is used is pleasant and the book looks neat. Only the illustrations are not always placed with the same care: the distance between the bottom of the illustration and the text differs a lot. Furthermore, two illustrations do n...

Bookstats: Pride & Prejudice characters

Today's bookstats are about the characters in Jane Austen's Pride &Prejudice , the book I'm reading at the moment. What a pleasure to begin the year with a story so captivating and familiar. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PrideAndPrejudiceTitlePage.jpg This book has over 120.000 words and the longest word is disinterestedness (17 characters). The aim of today's bookstats is to find out which character is, according to the number of mentions in the book, the most important! As you can probably guess, it is Elizabeth! She is mentioned 752 times in the book as either Elizabeth, Lizzy or Eliza. Before I started this little investigation, I took a moment to consult with myself what my expectations of the outcome were and made a top 5. Maybe you would like to write down your own expectations before you read on! 1. Elizabeth 2. Jane 3. Lydia 4. Mr. Darcy 5. Mr. Bingley Also, I asked two friends what their thoughts on the subject were: Friend 1...