PBS BOOKS READERS CLUB
This year marks the 250th birthday of Jane Austen, one of the most important and influential novelists in English literature. Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most iconic novel, blending wit, romance, and sharp social commentary. It showcases her narrative innovation, and explores themes of class, pride, gender roles, and self-discovery. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was reimagined in Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding, published in 1996. This clever, laugh-out-loud story, which is now considered a culturally iconic book, is told through the eyes of a hilariously imperfect modern heroine, Bridget; it popularized the chick lit genre as the novel explores the pressures women face to improve, adapt, and appear effortlessly put-together.
For our August read, PBS Books Readers Club has selected Bridget Jones’s Diary,…