Eligible: A modern re-telling of Pride and Prejudice is Curtis Sittenfeld's fifth novel; however, it is the first Sittenfeld novel that I've read. Eligible is part of a series of modern re-tellings of Jane Austen's works; previously Emma , Sense and Sensibility , and Northanger Abbey have all been updated and re-told by such well known authors as Alexander McCall Smith and Val McDermid. I haven't read any of the other modern re-tellings--but I may give them a try. Of all the Jane Austen adaptations, Pride and Prejudice is the one I love best and with which I'm most familiar. By now you all know of my fondness for Jane Austen adaptations and British period dramas. For various reasons from the first chapter I was not sure whether I would finish this novel or not. But at some point a switch flipped, and I was all in with the story. It's a fast read due to short (sometimes very short) chapters. The story has been transplanted from the Englis...
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