Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Pride and Prejudice !! For All you Readers !!?

Hi !! I was wondering for anyone who read Pride and Prejudice, or are readers.. Can you please let me know which of these books or any other that you may know of it most like Pride and Prejudice..?? And how :)? Thankk you !!!





The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mantinence by Robert Persig

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Emma

Sense and Sensibility

Mansfield Park

Persuasion

Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot

Blackmore, R.D. Lorna Doone

Bolt, Robert A Man for All Seasons

Boswell, James The Life of Samuel Johnson

Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights

Bunyon, John Pilgrim's Progress

Butler, Samuel Way of All Flesh

Cary, Joyce The Horse's Mouth

Chaucer, Geoffrey Canterbury Tales

Clarke, Arthur The Other Side of the Sky

Childhood's End

2001: A Space Odyssey

Congreve, William The Way of the World

Conrad, Joseph Lord Jim

Heart of Darkness

Secret Sharer

Three Great Tales

Victory

Defoe, Daniel Moll Flanders

Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles Tale of Two Cities

Bleak House

David Copperfield

Great Expectations

Hard Times

Oliver Twist

Our Mutual Friend

DuMaurier, Daphne Frenchman's Creek

King's General

Rebecca

Eliot, George Adam Bede

Middlemarch

Mill on the Floss

Eliot, T. S. Murder in the Cathedral

Fielding, Henry The History of Tom Jones

Amelia

Joseph Andrews

Forster, E. M. Passage to India

Howard's End

A Room With A View

Fowles, John The French Lieutenant's Woman

Frazer, Sir James The Golden Bough

Galsworthy, John Modern Comedy

Forsyte Saga

Golding, William The Inheritors

Lord of the Flies

Pryamid

Goldsmith, William She Stoops to Conquer

Vicar of Wakefield

Greene, Graham The Comedians

The Quiet American

Power and the Glory

The Heart of the Matter

Hardy, Thomas Return of the Native

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Tess of d'Urbervilles

Far from the Maddening Crowd

Jude, The Obscure

Huxley, Aldous Brave New World

James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady

Turn of the Screw

Daisy Miller

Washington Square

Joyce , James Finnegan's Wake

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers

Lewis, C.S. Screwtape Letters

Llewellyn, Richard How Green Was My Valley

Malory, Thomas Le Morte d' Arthur

Marlowe, Christopher Doctor Faustus

Maugham, Somerest The Moon and Sixpence

Of Human Bondage

The Razor's Edge

Meredith, George The Egotist

Milton, John Paradise Lost

More, Sir Thomas Utopia

Nordhoff, Charles Mutiny on the Bounty

Orwell, George 1984

Renault, Mary The Mask From Apollo

The King Must Die

Richardson, Samuel Pamela

Scott, Sir Walter The Antiquary

Kenilworth

Ivanhoe

Shaw, George Bernard Saint Joan

Pygamlion

Major Barbara

Arms and the Man

Man and Superman

Shute, Nevil On the Beach

Smollett, Tobias The Expedition of Hulmphrey Clinker

Sparks, Christine The Elephant Man

Sterne, Lawrence Tristram Shanty

Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels

Tennyson, Alfred Lord Idylls of the King

Thackeray, William Vanity Fair

Tolkien, J.R. R. All Works

Trollope, Anthony Barchester Towers

Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited

Wells, H. G. The Time Machine

Invisible Man

War of the World

Wilde, Oscar The Importance of Being Earnest

Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse

Mrs. Dalloway

The WavesPride and Prejudice !! For All you Readers !!?
Go with other Jane Austen such as Emma or Persuasion

Alternatively, you might want to consider The Importance of Being Earnest



From ShmoopPride and Prejudice !! For All you Readers !!?
maybe persuasion because its also a book by jane austen and its a great book.... but really there aren't any books like pride and prejudice. there are sequels to pride and prejudice written by other writers like Mr darcy takes a wife etc but really i wouldn't read that crapPride and Prejudice !! For All you Readers !!?
Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare has a similar love-hate relationship to Pride and Prejudice.
I am going preface this with the fact I have read the whole Twilight series, I found it to be poorly written and that the characters are not very well developed. That being said, Stephenie Meyers took inspiration from Pride and Prejudice, to write Twilight, the first book in the series. The books ended up sharing a lot of the same themes.



The idea that first impressions are not always correct. The idea that our own beliefs and prejudices hinder our first impressions. The way the kids at school are afraid of the Cullens. Edward originally thought that Bella was graceful and unobservant. Elizabeth's impression that Mr. Dracy is too proud and vain. Mr. Dracy's impression that Elizabeth is uncultured and unread.



The effects of different styles of parenting/upbringing. Bella was raised by a flighty/immature mother so she became the care taker in the relationship. Bella has issues with being taken care of. Edward on the other hand, was brought up by Carlisle to be principled, moral, and responsible. This causes him to extremely overbearing and protective. Elizabeth's mother was extremely flighty and lack some social graces. Mr. Dracy was raised to be principled, responsible, and to be a member of the highest social class.



Love, while a major theme for the whole Twilight series, is really only seen as first love in Twilight. Where everything is new and exciting. The infatuation period. Mr. Dracy and Elizabeth's love was slow growing and very deep.

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