Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. It was written between 1796 and 1797, and was initially called First Impressions. Revised in 1811, it was published two years later in 1813 by the same Mr. Egerton, of the Military Library, Whitehall, who had brought out Sense and Sensibility. Like both its predecessor and Northanger Abbey, it was written at Steventon Rectory.

Film and Television Adaptations

Pride and Prejudice has been the subject of many film and television adaptations http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000807/.

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• 2005: Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen.
• 2004: Bride and Prejudice, the Bollywood version, directed by Gurinder Chadha and starring Anupam Kher, Aishwarya Rai, and Naveen Andrews.
• 2003: Pride and Prejudice.
• 2001: Bridget Jones's Diary with Colin Firth as Darcy.
• 1995: Pride and Prejudice, the BBC production, starring Colin Firth as Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth.
• 1940: Pride and Prejudice starring Laurence Olivier in the role of Darcy, and Greer Garson as Elizabeth.

There were five additional BBC television productions of Pride and Prejudice, made in 1938, 1952, 1958, 1967, and 1980.

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