tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post5199630306798394469..comments2024-03-28T17:53:43.541-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Repost: Pride and Prejudice, at 200 and at 17Darwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-66766902635809428422019-05-22T12:07:41.712-04:002019-05-22T12:07:41.712-04:00I think my first reading of Pride and Prejudice wa...I think my first reading of Pride and Prejudice was similar, though I probably read it a year or two younger than you did. (I remember having it with me on a baby sitting gig.) Until I got to college, my literary discoveries were very solitary because I didn't know anyone who read except my next younger brother, and our tastes seldom overlapped. I think I must have gotten it out of the library because it looked less boring than the other books on the teen shelf at the public library. (I was getting a lot of pressure to "move up" from the children's section. But the teen shelf was mostly about dating, and the adult section was even more boring as I had no guidance and only stumbled upon classics rarely and by chance.) I am so glad that, like you, I read P&P with a fresh mind and no preconceptions. Though it was rather sad that I didn't know that Jane Austen had written other novels until I went to college.Catholic Bibliophagisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10697706672495544901noreply@blogger.com