{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Side Quest Book Club Podcast","title":"Pride and Prejudice Part 3 - Jane Austen - Classic Literature - Romance Book - Season Finale","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":8586,"description":"We finally finished Pride & Prejudice and have thoughts. In this season finale, Shiara, Jonathan, and Slava are joined by guest Lindsay to break down Volume 3: Darcy's secret intervention, the Lydia and Wickham disaster, the Pemberley awkward run-in, and whether Elizabeth Bennet deserves her happy ending (jury's still out).We also get into why gossip is the engine of the whole book, what makes Mr. Darcy the most underrated character in classic lit, and why texting would have solved literally everything.In this episode: Darcy's Pemberley behavior explained · The \"I did it for you\" moment · Lydia and Wickham: who's actually worse · Lady Catherine's unhinged house call · Elizabeth vs. Charlotte Lucas · Jane Austen's real life vs. the novel · BBC vs. Keira Knightley — which adaptation wins · Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, explainedSubscribe so you don't miss it.ABOUT THE BOOKWhen Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows us the folly of judging by first impressions. She superbly evokes the friendships, gossip, and snobberies of provincial middle-class life. This Penguin Classics edition, based on Austen's first edition, contains the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner and an updated introduction and notes by Viven Jones.ABOUT THE AUTHORJane Austen was born in 1775 in the small Hampshire village of Steventon, where her father was a Church of England clergyman. The household was large, creative, and deeply literary. This childhood shaped everything she would become as a writer. She began writing seriously as a teenager and spent the following decades crafting some of the most beloved...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AMKaOUxpu7QX1stlFkh6EvAHKU4C-UJoTN-2JKJadeU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wNTMy/ZDM1Y2YyMWM1NmZk/ZjQwNTVjM2MxZWNk/ZGU5ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}