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From the baffling through the bizarre to the beautiful, YouTube’s collection of Pride and Prejudice fan videos has it all. Here are some of the quirkiest and most agreeable that we have found. There are plenty more to enjoy, so please feel free to add links to your favorites below.
A 1980 adaptation fan video set [...]

Mr Darcy’s motivation for his behavior at the Meryton ball has been interpreted in various ways. If none of them have quite convinced you, then how about this attempt from British comic duo Mitchell and Webb? Be warned, however, that the clip does contain some very strong language – from the mouth of Mr. Darcy [...]

The peerless and wonderful folks at archive.org have provided us all with another fantastic Pride and Prejudice resource: the full audiobook for free! It has been produced by Librivox and is available under a Creative Commons Public Doman license. You can listen to Jane Austen’s masterful work, read beautifully by Karen Savage, below.

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Anyone who thinks that back in the ‘good old days’ dramatizers treated their source material with a little more respect should check out the ending of the 1940 Pride and Prejudice movie. Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s role in the story, not to mention her entire personality, has been given a full-on makeover by screenwriter Aldous [...]

The Lake Scene vs The Rain Scene
The famous ‘Rain Scene’ from the 2005 Pride and Prejudice movie is where Matthew Macfadyen’s dripping-wet Mr. Darcy proposes to Elizabeth for the first time. The ‘Lake Scene’ from the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice 1995 is the moment after Colin Firth’s Darcy has taken a swim in his [...]

I was most flattered to be interviewed recently by the lovely Bella from A Bibliophile’s Bookshelf. Click here to check it out and have a look around her wonderful site for book lovers.
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