Their story has inspired erotic spinoffs, murder mysteries and a retelling from the servants’ point of view. Then came the “Hollywood-meets-Bollywood” movie Bride and Prejudice and even a genre mashup with zombie hordes menacing Pemberley. Pride and Prejudice is the novel that simply will not die. This strain has strengthened in reaction to “Austen-inspired scented candles” and paint-by-numbers novels like The Jane Austen Book Club. Austen herself deemed Pride and Prejudice “rather too light and bright and sparkling”; to read it alongside other works does her more justice.

Source: The Guardian August 13, 2017 18:22 UTC