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This Pride and Prejudice adventure book was published in 2007 as ‘Lost in Austen,’ and republished in the UK as ‘Being Elizabeth Bennet’ the following year. Both carry the subtitle ‘Create your own Jane Austen adventure.’ To keep confusion to a minimum, during this review I’ll refer to ‘Lost in Austen’ but the text is [...]

Pride and Prejudice 1995 on DVD

Before declaring my ardent love for the Blu-ray release of the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice from the rooftops of Pemberley, I should say that the standard DVD edition remains a must-own for those without HD. See our review of BBC Pride and Prejudice 1995 if you are unfamiliar with the [...]

Lost in Austen is a British Pride and Prejudice-inspired TV series that aired in 2008. A runaway success in the UK and overseas, it is available internationally on DVD and will be made into a movie in 2011, although details about the Lost in Austen movie are disconcertingly scarce. Excitingly, however, it looks set to [...]

Catching up on DVD reviews has provided me with the most pleasantly providential pretext for plumping up the cushions and parking on the sofa – to delight once more in the wonderful 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice TV serialization. While the DVD version lacks the color and crispness that modern audiences have come to expect, [...]

To review the DVD of a minor movie release of a Pride and Prejudice adaptation like this may seem a little unnecessary, but we thought it might be useful since it shares its exact title with Jane Austen’s novel. It might therefore be the kind of DVD to promote an impulse purchase from Pride and [...]

Bride and Prejudice is Gurinder Chadha’s 2004  attempt to fuse Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Bollywood glitz, British satire and Hollywood schmaltz into a single film. The movie follows Lalita (Bollywood goddess Aishwarya Rai) in the Elizabeth Bennet role, who in this adaptation is a middle-class Indian girl with three sisters (presumably four would have [...]