Sixteen years ago, an up-and-coming young writer and a scrappy little Philadelphia publisher hit the jackpot with a simple recipe: Take eight parts out-of-copyright text of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice . Add two parts zombies. Combine. Count the money as it rolls in.   I wasn’t a fan of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , which felt to me like a one-note joke that outlasted its welcome long before Elizabeth and Darcy got hitched, and I liked the 2016 movie even less.  

About twenty-five minutes into Audible’s new audio adaptation of Pride and Prejudice , Sir William Lucas summons Elizabeth Bennet over for a chat. “Sir Lucas! Good evening,” she greets him.   That sound you hear is the irritated grinding of my teeth.   Mostly, I loved this adaptation. Sure, I could have done without the pop theme song and the occasional dialogic anachronism (“Bingley likes Jane a lot,” Charlotte Lucas says, sounding more like a twenty-first-century middle sch

Jane Austen’s influence on Bridgerton  is old news. If the whole feisty-Regency-heroines-in-marriage-plots thing didn’t give it away,...

No one knows how long we’ll have to wait to see the newest screen adaptation of Pride and Prejudice , the buzzy Netflix version now filming in the UK. But the latest audio version of the novel, a four-and-a-half-hour adaptation with a full cast, dropped last month, and Audible celebrated by co-hosting a New York City bash—or, rather, a “ Luxe Pride and Prejudice Party . ”   The party— naturally , it was “an immersive experience”—was held at a bar/restaurant with Victorian

Jane Austen’s views on the international tragedies of her time are mostly unknown, except when they are brutally unsentimental. “How...

The new Netflix adaptation of   Pride and Prejudice seems to be coming along nicely: Press outlets in the UK have breathlessly reported...

Say this for Jane Austen: She’s an inexhaustible source of roles for actresses who have aged out of the film industry’s ingenue...

The inexhaustible well of creative inspiration that is Pride and Prejudice  looks to be bubbling over once again. Whether you prefer to...

Few pastimes give me as much pleasure as the ogling of unaffordable real estate. It’s a bonus when said real estate has Jane Austen...

Three-quarters of the twenty-first century lies ahead of us, but already the New York Times  is hard at work on clickbait  Best of the...

In Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice , no one gets wet, except for poor Jane Bennet, soaked (offstage) while riding to Netherfield...

Although Jane Austen didn’t write for children, many Janeites discover Austen during their tween or teen years, around the age when...