Austen’s novels are comedies of manners but meticulous records of the social sciences too.Įligible is, of course, preoccupied by matters of class. In a stack of exceptional reading, this is the one which I saved until last, the one I wanted to fall asleep afterwards, the one I wanted to sneak a few pages of in the mornings.Ībove and beyond, the funnest part is the way Curtis Sittenfeld has updated both style and story. Not suspecting, yet, that I would be smiling through much of the 400+ pages to follow, and laughing out loud (LOUD) on several occasions.Įligible became my go-to read. Merely Curtis Sittenfeld in Jane Austen’s clothing.īut, then, this first sentence: “Well before his arrival in Cincinnati, everyone knew that Chip Bingley was looking for a wife.”Ĭincinnati? Really? Now, that’s fun, I thought, smiling. See, not REALLY a Curtis Sittenfeld novel. Despite having read all of Curtis Sittenfeld’s other books.Īh, well, it all made sense when I recognized that it was a retelling of Pride and Prejudice.
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