Pride and Prejudice (THE GREAT CLASSICS LIBRARY)

Elisabeth and Darcy - need one say more? This was Austen's second published novel, and its alliterative title may have been no more than an attempt to capitalize on its predecessor, "Sense and Sensibility." -- The film world owes a great debt to "Pride and Prejudice", which has been repeatedly put on the big screen: in 1940, with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, inf 2003 with Kam Heskin and Orlando Seale, in 2005 with Keira Knightley (in an Oscar-nominated performance) and Matthew Macfadyen. The BBC has presented two versions: in 1995 with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, and in 1980 version with Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul. Stage versions have been both spoken and sung.