Cliff Notes have always helped me in the past have a greater understanding of classic literture, and this guide to Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is no exception.

The guide covers all of the chapters with a summary, commentary and glossary for definitions. The guide also includes a brief biography of the author, character analyses, a review section(which contains: Questions and answers, identify the quote, essay questions, and practice projects), a resource center(which contains: books with more information and web sites), and critical essays.

I highly recommend this guide to anyone who wants a better understanding of this classic book.

This book has an extrodianry amount of suspense it was good for people who like long books, i think Jane Austen is an good novelist.

These cliff notes really helped me understand Austen's pride and prejudice. I now fully understnad this novel and am able to discuss it properly in my english class!

I loved this book! I read it in one day, because I could not put it down! The twisted plot really keeps one rivited right until the end. Really good read, and it is a real shame that this little known book is out of print. I would love to see a pubishing house pick it up for a reissue.

Charlotte Bronte wrote a very short beginning to a novel, entitled 'Emma', which she never finished. Another author has picked it up and, based on various clues and the pieces's introduced characters, has continued the piece. The plot is gothic in the Bronte style, and the prose is very good and true to Bronte's style. The characters, as developed by the author, are engaging, and Emma herself is an impressive creation. One doesn't know how Bronte herself might have continued this piece, but the continuation/completion by this author make up for a satisfying, well-written story. I found it in a library and can't find it since- I am only sorry no one knows about it, and thus it's so hard to find! Bronte fans everywhere should have been treated to this well-done sequel.

This book rox! I don't know why most people don't know about it...it's so good! The whole plot is so twisted and intertwined with each other! The characters are cool! The conflict -- well, that's what the story's about! Not only that, it's full of suspense that once you start reading it, you just can't put it down! It keeps your knees bouncing and you bite your nails as you read through, wishing that you could read a bit faster. You think -- "I just want to know what happens to MArtina!" and when you find out you go "I just want to find out about GuS!" and so on till you're finished. And when you finish with the book, you'll have a nice, warm tingly feeling running through your veins.

Jane Austen wrote these short snippets on a number of the rulers of England in chronological order - using, as she says, 'very few dates'. The result is a wonderful collection of highly prejudicial outlines of various Kings and Queens - and after all the purpose of history to be scandalous and slanderous can be undermined by sticking too closely to extraneous detail such as dates and so on. The whole thing would probably take you much less than hour to read. Austen proves her talent for sharp observation and wit from an early age for this little book was written while she was still a teenager in the early 1790's. Its a lovely introduction to her writing for those who haven't had much to do with Austen before but are keen to try her out.

This book may not be used in any history class, but it is one of the most charming works she ever wrote. I had this smile painted on my face the entire 15 minutes it took to read it. Very, very witty.

Jane Austen may be best known for her biting and sarcastic wit, her compassion for her characters, and her understanding of the truth of their lives and situations. But this short piece of juvenilia combines all of her mature insight with the confidence, humour, and unmitigated self-satisfaction of a younger and more whimsical Austen. Definitely not to be overlooked in favour of her more serious work, this book will take merely minutes to read but leave you with astoundingly funny comments to treasure and smile over for years to come. It is Jane Austen at her very best: uninhibited, cruel, funny and ultimately self-deprecating. She knows what she is doing and does it with consumate skill. A must read for any Austen fan or anyone with a sense of humour.

Inevitably writers will receive the stinging "slap in the face" of rejection. Its imprint will leave a touch of pain and a slight bruise but don't despair. Welcome to the distinquished club of Charlotte Bronte, Ernest Hemingway, Jules Verne, and other literary icons who were rejected. Elaine Borish presents us with the inspiring stories of English literatures' most famous authors who experienced rejection of their works which have become classics.

Starting with Jane Austen to Zane Grey, you will be astonished at the reasons why editors, publishers and literary readers rejected the works of literatures' greatest writers. If these writers believed these "nuts" such works as Atlas Shrugged, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Rabbit, Uncle Tom's Cabin and other gems would remain in their imaginations never to see the light of day.

What I found most interesting about the authors was their response to such harsh criticism and disparagement of their works. Find out about those who revised their work and made it into print. Share in the risk of those who decided to self-publish rather than allow the opinions of others to keep them down. Regale in joy with those who persisted in sending their work in after numerous rejections until it was published.

If you are despondent about your work being rejected you will learn from these authors that rejection is never the final word. Ayan Rand says, "Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it."

Each chapter is short and easy to read. You can dip into the book for fun without making a major commitment and still find the dip rewarding. Each chapter not only tells of the travails of the chapter's subject, but also provides some insights into the writings of the author. You'll get a feel for the author's place in literary history even if you haven't read any of his or her works. What's more, you may find yourself sufficiently intrigued by an author's adventure that you'll want to read one of his works. I did for several of them.

'Unpublishable' should not only be published but, more importantly, read. It is a gem and, like all good gems, it is multi-facetted. Firstly, it gives an accurate, historical cameo of the lives of noted, deceased authors. Secondly, it describes, without sentimentality, their epic struggles to be published. Thirdly, it generates an enormous respect for their tenacity of purpose and determination to see their dreams realised. Each chapter of 'Unpublishable' gives an intimate glimpse into the lives of those who can surmount all obstacles to achieve their aims and, thereby, leave us a literary inheritance. Read it. It's fun, fascinating and enriching!

Pride and Predjudice was one of the best books I have ever read, and Sense and Sensbility is equally wonderful. I recommend these books to everyone who has an appreciation for great literature, and to al the hopeless romantics out there.

Most amazing work of art ever written by a female author. This edition is one of the best as it brings two of the best loved tales together, giving a chance to analyze and compare the stories, characters, etc. I'm not going to give a synopsis as there are plenty around, so I'll just expound on why this book was better.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: This classic love story about Elizabeth and Darcy can always definitely leave a person with a warm fuzzy feeling, how many ever times read. my favorite scene...when Darcy unexpectedly returns home and Elizabeth is seeing his house, thinking he wouldn't be there.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: Who can forget Elinor and Marianne? Austen captures the human mind so well that it can almost be us she's talking about. There are too many favorite scenes in this one to even choose one to mention, it's so hard!

In all, both these stories are really essential in any educated person's library. Heck, you can even get the whole collection of books, it absolutely worth your while. I've read all of Austen's books so many times that I just got the whole colection.

Jane Austin was a Tory. She was born in 1775, the year of the American Revolution, lived through the French Revolution, the Jacobin 'Terror' and the Age of Napoleon, and died just after Waterloo. The quiet English countryside she knew and loved became imperiled by many factors during her lifetime.

Tanner, a reader at Cambridge, has written an insightful literary criticism about the seven novels Austen wrote (Sandition was incomplete at the time of her death). His book is written for the 'close' reader of Austen's work. I was introduced to his text in one of my courses on Austen.

For example, in his chapter on 'Mansfield Park' Tanner lays out the underpinnings of the story as one of conflict between the order of the rural countryside (Mansfield Park) versus the disorder of Portsmouth and the corrupting influence of London. Various characters stand for these places as well as the moral failings of society. The three sisters Mrs. Price (lust) represents Portsmouth, Mrs Norris (envy) and Mrs. Bertram (sloth) represent Mansfield Park on the verge of breakdown. The Crawfords (avarice) interlopers from London, reprent the alluring but treacherous ways of urban life. Fanny, Edmund, and Mr. Bertram represent the ordered rural life.

When asked what "Mansfield Park' was about, Ms. Austen replied it was about "ordination." The word ordination comes from the Latin word--ordo. Tanner says Ms. Austen, concerned "with the problem of how a true social order could be maintained, particularly in a troubled period, clearly considered the role of the clergyman as being of special importance."

Tanner says Mansfield Park is loaded with symbolism. For example, on a group walk Fanny stays on the straight and narrow path by remaining stationary on a bench, while Edmund and Mary Crawford walk the Serpintine path. Maria and Julia stray from the cultivated garden into the "wilderness" behind the iron gate with Henry Crawford.

Fanny Price wears an amber cross, a gift from her beloved brother William. She hangs it on a gold chain given her by Edmund. Wearing these two gifts over her heart gives her "inner peace."

Fanny is the center of the story. Although many readers may perceive her as a prig, she is a very complex character. She is Austen's source of Good Orderly Direction. At the end, Mr. Bertram the "lord" of Mansfield Park recognizes her as his "true" daughter.

This book is an interesting and insightful analysis on Jane Austen, her novels and her social and ideological milieu. After an introductory chapter on Jane Austen in relation with the Novel, Society, Education and Language, Tony Tanner dedicates the next chapters to a detailed study on Jane Austen's novels, including the incomplete Sandition. Tanner is highly effective in relating the historical, social and artistic circumnstances in Austen's time and how they influence the main themes and values present in her novels. As a result, the reader is able to have a clearer picture of Jane Austen and the evolution of both her writing style and her perspectives of society and the human person. Tanner has a clear style of writing, never losing the interest of the reader. A great work for the literary scholar and the general reader.

Mavis Batey takes the reader on a relaxed written tour of the pastoral Britain of Jane Austen's time. She has researched the philosophical and poetic background--Cowper, Gilpin, Rousseau, Repton and others--of the late 1700s and early 1800s to help the reader understand the literary climate that influenced Jane's own written portraits of life in her time. I particularly enjoyed the warm pictures she painted of Austen family life--as the Austens worked in their gardens and walked through their shrubberies . . Mavis connects each of Jane's books with Jane's response to the familial and intellectual landscape of the correlating time. And she does all this without wearying us. I think this is one book about Jane of which Jane would approve. I also found it in my university library, and I want it!

I checked this book out of my university library several times and finally had to buy it. Batey's scholarship is thorough and impeccable. I have turned to the book as a resource repeatedly, and also have joyfully read the work for the sheer pleasure of it. If you need to know about Gilpin and the Picturesque, Austen and the Rousseau connection, or the Responsible Landlord in Austen's novels, get this book for your reference shelf. A must for serious Janites.

The second edition (available only in paperback) contains a new essay, "The Mouse that Roared," about Patricial Rozema's film of Mansfield Park.

I'm a big fan of Jane Austen in all forms. I've always thought that a mediocre Austen film is better than none at all. This book takes a fascinating scholarly look at Austen's film treatment. The authors say everything all true Austen fans have muttered about the films ("where's THAT in the book?!") and explains why it was done in such a way (for example, modern filmgoers won't appreciate an ugly, boring Edward Ferrers). Contains amusing critique of Thompsons S&S--that Austen's originial may have been more "feminist" than Thompson! If you enjoy the original written Austen and/or the recent film versions, you'll love this book.

I had to read this book for summer reading in 7th grade. The books they pick are usually very boring. I loved this one though. It was wonderful.

This more than just a book on Jane Austen, this is a book on Jane Austen Fans. They are called 'Janeite's' after Rudyard Kipling's famous short story "The Janeites" about a group of soldiers recovering from injuries in the First World War - and the secret, almost Mason-like, society that has been formed in the world by her fans. If only this were true!

Deidre Lynch has collected together nine essays on Austen. The collection deals with the rise and fall of Jane's popularity as an author with the public and with literary critics through the ages and in different countries. Some of these author's are at the foremost of Austen research, William Galperin whose essay is Chapter 4 is one of the names I recognise best from my past reading and his essay on Austen's earliest readers is a fascinating historical perspective that blends in well with Claudia Johnson's essay (chapter one in this book).

For American's reading this book you might be most interested in chapter seven by Mary A Favret "Free and Happy: Jane Austen in America" - which also touches on the diabolical mess of a movie made in 1940 of Pride and Prejudice starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier.

There are two interesting departures from the simple discussion of critics and culture with two essays in this book - although they are both on questions often asked by Austen Fans. Chapter 5 by Clara Tuite is on the strange and ambiguous nature (to our modern ears anyway) of entails. This issue is most relevant to Austen's book Pride and Prejudice in which the Bennett girls will be left almost penniless because of an entail - a matter which means they must marry.

The other chapter of interest is chapter 8 by Roger Sales which is on the matter of servants - or very much the lack of them in Austen.

This book is by no means one that you would read cover to cover in a single sitting, it is an academic work, and is fully footnoted etc., however some of these essays are highly readable and enjoyable. I have a feeling that most people will treat this as some kind of university text and throw it away the moment they have passed their course. However if you are an Austen Fan, or are interested in her as an author then I would recommend this. It is an excellent and varied collection which manages to answer some of the key questions asked by Austen's fans on her works. It is also a great historical look at her fans through the ages, and the reasons for the ardency of afficiando's. At least take a look at chapter one and see if Austen is the author for you.

If you loved "Pride and Prejudice" and have an open mind about reading the sequels to it, I enthusiastically encourage you to read this novel. It is, in my opinion, the best of the many sequels that have been written. What I didn't like about other sequels was what I felt to be an incorrect interpretation of the characters (in other words, they acted in ways I didn't think they would), and there was often very little emphasis put on Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship (most of the other sequels were more concerned with what were "supporting" characters in the original novel). But, in this book, I think the characters are perfectly represented, and it's not at all difficult to imagine the characters behaving and speaking as they did here. I think Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship is wonderfully represented and, while old and new characters are included in this story, the main plot involves both Darcy & Elizabeth, as opposed to a "secondary" character. I would LOVE to see this book, though older than the rest of the sequels, made into a movie or mini-series. However, I wish it were more widely available for purchase. I've searched throughout the Internet and haven't yet found a single copy for sale. I wish they would reprint this book so more people could own it, as I hope to. Again, everyone, read this book!

In the years since we all watched the splendid BBC/A&E production of Pride and Prejudice, have you ever wondered what might have happened after that gorgeous double wedding? You're not alone. This delightful book presents one such scenario, which takes place four years later.

All is serene at Pemberley Great House, as it is referred to by the inhabitants of the area, until the night when Dr. Robinson, aged eighty-seven, who had been Rector of Pemberley for more than fifty years, passes on to his reward, peacefully, during his sleep. It is this traumatic event which opens the doors to a summer of upheaval in the lives of 'Fitz' and Elizabeth Darcy.

Of course, a new rector must be found, as soon as possible; but first, poor Darcy must convince the two elderly, maiden daughters of the good reverend that they must find another place to live. But no! If he will only find a bachelor to fill the living, said bachelor can reside with them, and they will in turn keep up the house. From such a simple premise do great events transpire!

The Darcys are now parents of a two-year old son, Richard; Jane and Bingley have two daughters. Nothing is said of Lydia and Wickham. Mr. Bennet and Kitty, still unmarried, come to visit, as does Aunt Gardiner. Uncle Gardiner is unavoidably detained in London, investigating for Darcy. Georgiana, also unmarried, still resides at Pemberley; indeed, she cannot imagine living anywhere else.

Although we are not relieved of the company of Lady Catherine de Bourgh and her daughter, Lady Anne, we are thankfully spared the presence of Mrs. Bennet and, except for a letter from him, Mr. Collins.

After much behavior of the sort to be found in the Austen books, a happy resolution is achieved for nearly all. Kitty and Georgiana are no longer among the ranks of the unmarried, and even Lady Anne will find a spouse. (He even agrees to change his pedestrian name to de Bourgh, such is the lure of her vast inheritance.)

If nothing else, this book, written nearly fifty years before the splendid film was even thought of, confirms the wonderfully appropriate casting of the film. Consider these lines: Darcy, speaking about his cousin, Francis Wakeford; "...although Wakeford spoke of his desire for solitude, I became convinced that his need is for companionship." Or, when Elizabeth opens the door to a room where Darcy has been awaiting her, "When she opened the door of his room, he was walking up and down as was his way if much perturbed. On seeing her he stood still and looked at her searchingly." Can't you picture it? And, what about Jane? "Jane's time never seemed to be her own. Either one of her children or her husband, required her attention." While Bingley: "...declared that for his part he never knew where he put anything and always had to ask Jane." And, lastly, of Lady de Bourgh herself: "Unfortunately, Lady Catherine's usual spirit of contrariety did not on this occasion assert itself."

I've not yet read any of the other sequels to Pride and Prejudice, but I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed the original book--or the film.