Wednesday, November 20, 2013

My favorite book ever

Hello! Today I’m going to talk about my favorite book. Without a doubt I can say that my favorite book ever is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I love Jane Austen! She is absolutely my favorite writer. Stories like Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey make me fall in love over and over again with delightful gentlemen like Mr. Tilney, Edmund, Mr. Knightley and the perfect Mr. Darcy.

I really like Pride and Prejudice because I love period novels and this story follows the life of a young woman, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with the issues of manners, morality, education and marriage in the early 19th century. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London. 

The story narrative opens with Mr. Bingley's (an aristocratic, charming and social young bachelor) arrival to Netherfield house in the neighborhood of Bennet family with his good friend the “proud and condescending” (but also handsome) Mr. Darcy. Mr. Bingley easily falls in love with Elizabeth elder sister the beautiful Jane. But, by contrast, Mr. Darcy despises Elizabeth, who overhears a joke and about it and she immediately starts to hate him.   

 “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine” Says Elizabeth

But what Elizabeth doesn't know yet is that she has completely enchanted Mr. Darcy and he loves her “most hardly”. 

I have to admit that even when all the girls always relate with the heroine’s point of view I absolutely love this book because I identify myself with Mr. Darcy. And this paragraph describes exactly my personality:


“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever” Mr. Darcy.

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