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‘Mr Darcy, Vampyre’ is a sequel to Pride and Prejudice with a twist (can you guess what it is?) Amanda Grange’s book begins at the end of Jane Austen’s novel, first thing in the morning of the day of Elizabeth’s wedding to Mr Darcy – and of course, Jane’s to Mr Bingley. However, before the [...]

This is a review of the 2005 movie soundtrack. For the BBC version, click here.

Dario Marianelli’s Oscar nominated score for the 2005 Pride and Prejudice movie contributed so much to its sensuality and sweeping grandeur. While Carl Davis’ music for the BBC adaptation was all about keeping things small scale and relatively simple appropriate for [...]

This is a review of the BBC 1995 adaptation. For a review of the 2005 Pride and Prejudice movie click here.

Carl Davis was a veteran composer for BBC dramas when he wrote the soundtrack for Pride and Prejudice, having worked on scores for the corporation since the mid-1970s. He was a great fan of the [...]

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Pride and Prejudice 1940 is primarily a wartime comedy, seeped in 1940s glamour and star quality, and only secondarily an adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel. Having written the dystopian novel Brave New World, screenwriter and novelist Aldous Huxley showed that he’s nothing if [...]

Gurinder Chadha’s 2004 Bride and Prejudice was a Hollywood-meets-Bollywood take on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, with a little bit of modern social satire thrown in. It was, perhaps unexpectedly, a little incoherent and reviews were very mixed. The reviews aggregation site metacritic.com gave it an average score of 55%. You can read our review [...]

Charlotte Bronte famously criticized Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for its ‘neat borders and delicate flowers.’ The novel, she wrote, had ‘no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck’ – merely ‘elegant but confined houses.’ Fair or not, she could have had no such complaints at Joe Wright’s outdoor extravaganza of [...]