Like most romantics I love Jane Austen. My introduction to her was the
Pride and Prejudice series in 1995 by BBC with
Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. Then I went and read the
book right away and loved it. In my 20s I found
Persuasion and loved the book but it wasn't until BBC remade it in 2007 that I loved the
movie. My favorite book and movie by Jane Austen is Persuasion and then Pride and Prejudice. Sorry Jane Austen but I find
Sense and Sensibility hard to read but I love the
Ang Lee version (ironically also released in 1995) There is a couple of her books that I haven't read yet but they are on my giant reading list on
Goodreads. I have read the
Marvel comics and loved the story's (of course) but the art is also great. I'm not so crazy that I like everything Jane Austen like the many rewrites and modernizing of her story's. I've given a couple of them a try but it was all kinds of wrong.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.
Tell me not that I am too late, that such
precious feelings are gone for ever.
-Captain Wentworth
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be
repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love
you. -Mr.Darcy
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