Jack and Alice [#books #review]

by Jane Austen

Rating: 9/10

I never shall forget her last words. 'My dear Kitty she said, Good night t'ye.' I never saw her afterwards. She eloped with the Butler the same night.
Lady Williams

(Page 25)

Persuasion [#books #review]

by Jane Austen

She had used him ill; deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige others. It had been the effect of over-persuasion.

Emma [#books #review]

by Jane Austen

That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Emma

Mansfield Park (review)

by Jane Austen

Rating: 8,5/10

...just such a contrast with his early opinion on the subject [...] as time is for ever producing between the plans and decisions of mortals, for their own instruction, and their neighbour's entertainment.

Lady Susan (review)

by Jane Austen

Rating: 9/10

Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. Vernon.

Langford, Decr.

My dear Brother I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted, of spending some weeks with you at Churchill, and therefore if quite convenient to you and Mrs. Vernon to receive me at present, I shall hope within a few days to be introduced to a sister, whom I have so long desired to be acquainted with. [incipit]

Epistolary novel that recounts a period in the life of Lady Susan, enterprising and shrewd widow, very nice and very effective-talking, can conquer all with her charm, and hide her meanness, wich she reveals only to her best friend.

Pemberley Ranch (review)

by Jack Caldwell

Rating: 8,5/10

Vicksburg, Mississippi—May 22, 1863
The day was several hot, stifling hours old when the young, gray-clad captain of infantry once again peeked carefully over the ramparts of his position into morning sun, telescope in hand.

The Civil War has been over for some years, but has left deep scars, like the one in the heart of a girl from Ohio, Elizabeth "Beth" Bennet, who still mourns the death of her brother, for which she blames the Confederates. What a shock to her when her father announces that the family will be moving to Texas: right in the middle those nasty Southerners! When she meets William Darcy, the wealthy owner of Pemberley Ranch, she finds easy to instantly hate him, because the man is practically everything she hates most in the world (despite being extremely charming). And Darcy seems to reciprocate the hostility, why otherwise she would find his penetrating gaze always on her, if not to judge and criticize? What other reason could be? :)

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Voto: 10/10

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Today is the 200th anniversary of the first pubblication of the masterpiece known as Pride and Prejudice. To celebrate I joined in december to an italian Reading Group (HERE) with an audio version of the book, read by an amazing italian actress, Paola Cortellesi.

Elizabeth Bennet has four sisters, an intrusive mother, a resigned father, a remarkable pride and a certain inclination for prejudices, despite the esteem that she herself has for her intellect. Fitzwilliam Darcy has only one sister, a huge patrimony, an immense pride and some prejudice, too, expecially about people of a inferior rank than his. What ever could happen if this two characters eventually meet each other? ;)