," directed by Ang Lee, with the screenplay by Emma Thompson, starring all kinds of wonderful people including the intriguing Alan Rickman. Mm, yes.
Sorry. I got distracted there a minute.
Anyway, I watched the movie, then the Emma Thompson commentary, then re-read the book, and having tasted the sweets of Jane Austen once more had to gobble down the whole plateful.
I read them in no particular order. Sense and Sensibility
, then Pride and Prejudice
, then Emma
, then Northanger Abbey
, then Mansfield Park
, and now I am about a third of the way through Persuasion
. O that Jane Austen had been spared to write more books! (I'm paraphrasing Mr. Bennett's remark about Mr. Bingley, in Chapter Three of Pride and Prejudice: "O that he had sprained his ancle in the first dance!" Then Mrs. Bennett wouldn't bore him by reciting a list of all Mr. Bingley's partners.)
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