Pride and Prejudice discussion

My favorite was Mansfield Park.

My favorite is Pride and Prejudice. I just love how she told the story and how all of the characters fit together.

My favorites are:
Pride and Prejudice beacause I love the relationship between Lizzy and Darcy and how there relationship grows over time.

Mansfield Park because I love Fanny Price she is such a unlikely heroine.

Pride and Prejudice is my fav too.I absolutely love Lizzy and the way she demands to be equal with Darcy. She is such a strong woman and represents something i think many women back in that time would have wanted to be.

Pride and Prejudice is my favorite coz I love the relationship between Lizzy and Darcy

i'm not sure i can pick between Pride and Prejudice and Emma. I LOOOOVEEEE them both!

Northanger Abbey! Gotta love my Katherine!

Persuasion, because it's about forgiveness and second chances and it always makes me so happy when Anne and Capitain Wentworth finally get together... and the letter he writes to her: perfection! "I am half agony, half hope... for you alone I think and plan..." My favourite Austen by far!

Pride and Prejudice or Emma. Both Elizabeth and Emma are strong female characters, but they have their flaws too! They both want everyone to be happy and in attempting to make it so, get themselves in trouble. I found them very relatable characters!

Emma! The humor is superb :) I just love Mr Knightley!

Pride and Prejudice is my favorite because I love Darcy.

Pride and Prejudice is strongest in terms of dramatic character development, with powerful supporting characters and relationships. The drama of betrayals, foolish rejections, and compromises is heavily engrossing. Also, it has some really classic language that I delight in -- elegantly turned phrases.

Emma is a close second, but I don't go back to it as often, mainly because I don't like Emma having to admit at the end that she was a fool. Plus, my mental image of her as a character was spoiled by that rotten movie with Gwyneth Paltrow.

This is a tough choice. I do so love Pride and Prejudice. Watching the relationship develop between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth is just delightful. I didn't care for Persuasion when I first read it, but it has grown on me. However, Sense and Sensibility is probably my sentimental favorite. The two sisters could be me and my sister. She is the fun one and I am the serious one.

Pride & Prejudice because this is a novel for all time and any time. Yes it's set 200 years ago but the humanity of the characters still rings true now. The story is wonderful. The language is beautiful. I can't adequately describe how much I love this book and why.

On the other hand my least favourite Jane Austen novel is Emma. I found the character Emma to be so strongly dislikeable that I could not enjoy the book despite the wonderful writing & many humourous highlights.

I agree with you Eilatan about Emma.

However, Pride & Prejudice never fails to lift my spirit, even though I want to smack Kitty and Lidia. Not to mention Mrs. Bennett. Darcy and Elizabeth are such great characters, and the evolution of their relationship is wonderful. It shows the human tendency to judge, but the capacity to change. Jane Austen wrote a timeless novel when she wrote P&P, and I am so thankful for it. It is one of my all time favorites, with Jane Eyre being my other.

So far, my favorite is Sense & Sensibility. I just love Elinor's composure so much.

My favorites are Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey. I hadn't heard anything about them before I read them, and was pleasantly surprised to find out that they were filled with humor and lovable characters that captured my heart and attention. I loved Fanny and Kathrine for very different reasons though. I found Fanny lovable because I understood her sense of right and wrong, and Kathrine for her innocence and naivety.

Darcy, Darcy, Darcy all the way for me. Though I do appreciate Emma more now that I picture Jeremy Northam as Mr. Knightley.

1. tie: "Emma" & "Pride and Prejudice"
2. "northanger abbey"
3. "sense and sensibility"
4. "mansfield park"

didn't read "perusation" yet

Persuasion is my favorite, right next to Pride and Prejudice and Emma. I like the self-torture of regret and feeling powerless over your emotions. To me, I think the book has a great has a lot of potent character development.

Pride and prejudice :D. The rest i read half and didn't care to finish.

Pride and Prejudice because of the strong female lead character. Women in those days were treated somewhat as property in a way. Elizabeth had the strength and the will to stand up to what was expected of her to go her own way and make her own decisions. I admire her for that.

I think these days I love Persuasion best, but in my youth Northanger Abbey was my favorite. Though..I loved Sense and Sensibility (and of course identified with the romantic and heedless sister) and I reread P&P every few years to see what new nuances I pick up.
All Austen's work is delightful.

Torn between Persuasion and Sense and Sensibililty. I love the story and Captain Wentworth and Anne and I also love the contrast between Elinor and Marianne.
There is a writer called Anna Dean who writes mysteries in an Austenesque way. I really like her.

i love all of them but pride and prejudice just captured me may it has nothing to do with the writer may be it was my first novel to read ! :)

Pride and Prejudice my favorite Jane Austen no doubt,
Emma is second

Clare wrote: "Torn between Persuasion and Sense and Sensibililty. I love the story and Captain Wentworth and Anne and I also love the contrast between Elinor and Marianne.
There is a writer called Anna Dean who..."

Anna Dean? Thanks for the tip, Clare.

I love love love Pride and Prejudice! I like what it has to say about first impressions! And of course, Elizabeth's strength!
Second would have to be Sense and Sensibility...

Emi wrote: "I love love love Pride and Prejudice! I like what it has to say about first impressions! And of course, Elizabeth's strength!
Second would have to be Sense and Sensibility..."

whats sense and sensibility like??? iv been wanting to read it =D

I do love Pride and Prejudice. I like the plot it is sweet.

I love all Austen's work but my personal favorite is probably Persuasion followed by Pride and Prejudice. Persuasion is really a beautiful story of second chances.

Persuasion and Emma

I love Sense and Sensibility. There's just so much things that I and Elinor have in common that it's just insane; it's wonderful to identify myself with her as the story goes forward.
My other absolute favorite is Northanger Abbey, but I've got to admit that there's so much magic in each and every book Austen has written, that I hold all of them dear.

I can't resist voting for Pride and Prejudice. It's a weird thing that I can't get bored reading or watching it again and again. I'm a Jane Austen fan so I enjoy the rest of her works as well.

Pride and Prejudice. <3

Pride and Prejudice. I just really like Elizabeth and Darcy and think they are great characters and I like their story.

I loved Mansfield Park! I loved Fanny Price and it was also the first Austen book I read, so it holds a special place in my heart.

I like P&P because it's so "light and bright and sparkling", as Austen herself wrote: it's witty and sharp with a happy ending. Persuasion is wonderful: sad and sweet and romantic. And I like Northanger Abbey for what it has to say about the effects of stories. The only Austen novel I actively disliked was actually Mansfield Park: I just found Fanny insufferably passive, so unlike Elizabeth. I know she would have been the perfect woman for Austen's contemporaries, but now she's very old-fashioned.

Pride and Prejudice. It's absolutely flawless. The characters, the story, the dialog, and the author's ability to hold up a mirror so we can see ourselves.

Persuasion :)

Pride and Prejudice

I really love Persuasion( I love the letter)then comes Emma, Pride and Predudice. A few years ago was the first time I read an Austen novel and she is now one of my favorite authors. I probably would have never picked up an Jane Austen book on my own but her books were repeatedly mentioned in the Twilight books.

Pride and Prejudice. I just love Darcy's arrogance and Lizzy's pig-headedness!

Pride and Prejudice. It's the only one I've read :)

Emma :)

It has to be Pride and Prejudice. This is the go-to book for me when I need a comfort read to go to. However, Northanger Abbey is a pretty close second just because it is such a marvelous sendup of a Gothic novel. No one before or after has been able to match Austen for wit and sly satire.

I personally love Pride and Prejudice. I listened to an audio recording of it and watched the movie afterwards. I loved how Jane Austen made it seem like Mr. Wickham was the good guy and Ms. Caroline Bingly was the enemy, but it turned out that it was the other way around!! It was very interesting.

Pride and Prejudice!!! (All though I love anything
Austen.) I love Mr Darcy (and I love Colin Firth playing Mr Darcy, too!) and there is some much humor throughout the novel. Who can not help but laugh as Mr Collins panders to the "woman of the moment." and Lady Catherine De bourgh, who just can't believe that she is not the center of the universe for everyone

Luisa wrote: "Persuasion, because it's about forgiveness and second chances and it always makes me so happy when Anne and Capitain Wentworth finally get together... and the letter he writes to her: perfection! "..."

I completely agree! I take "Persuasion" with me on every vacation. Anne Elliot is the most mature heroine by far. She is the most insightful. She's the one I'd love to be friends with.

Love them all pretty much, but Pride and Prejudice is my big favorite. Such memorable characters in the book ... from a wonderfully strong, sassy heroine Elizabeth Bennett, to snobby Mr. Darcy, to the ridiculous Mrs. Bennett ... and so many more. Such an amazing book. But close seconds are Persuasion, then Sense and Sensibility.