The book is not an easy read, Both adaptations have their merits.

I like this adaptation, but I also agree with you that Catherine is a bit too naïve. As you pointed out, a lot can be summarized into the challenges which come with a short running time. While it is not saying much, I believe this to be the best adaptation of the book.

As of this particular bright and frosty morning here in Upper Canada, my own ranking of Jane Austen’s novels would be as follows: 1. “Pride and Prejudice” - If there’s such a thing as the perfect novel, “Pride and Prejudice” is it; ‘nuff said! 2. “Persuasion” -- The Napoleonic Wars is one of my favourite periods in history and I view “Persuasion” as Jane Austen’s tribute to her seafaring brothers, Charles and Francis, who served in the Royal Navy and helped thwart Napoleon’s plans for European domination. As an older reader, I also enjoy the more mellow and autumnal feel of the romance between Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, even though they’re both quite young by our standards. 3. “Emma” -- I like the village setting of the story and the variety of characters who inhabit the novel, from Mr. Woodhouse and the Knightley brothers down to the sweetly charming Miss Harriet Smith and humble farmer Mitchell, who just happens to have a couple of spare umbrellas on hand one day. By the standards of Jane Austen’s time, Emma finds a good catch in Mr. George Knightley, but I can’t help but feel uneasy at the idea of 21-year-old Emma becoming wife to a 37-year-old man who fell in love with her when she was all of 13 years (!?!), and from whom she can have no secrets because he’s known her all his life. 4. “Sense and Sensibility” -- I enjoy the relationship between the three Dashwood sisters (my youngest daughter played Margaret in a local amateur theatre production years ago), just as I do the one between the five Bennet girls. I also enjoy the scene shifts from the country to London and back to the country again. The British postal service must have been phenomenally efficient at the time. Marianne arrives in London at 3:00 pm with her sister, Elinor, mails a note to Mr. Willoughby, and expects an answer that same evening! My only reservation about this novel is the same one I have for “Emma”; 19-year-old Marianne becomes married to Colonel Brandon, who is in his late 30s, and whom Marianne once correctly described as being old enough to be her father. 5. “Northanger Abbey” -- I like the fact that Catherine Morland has a nice, big welcoming family to come home to at the end of the story. Unlike other Austen heroines, she doesn’t seem to be under any pressure to get married, though she does quite well for herself by attracting Henry Tilney. I also enjoy the way Jane Austen describes Catherine’s schoolgirl fantasies about being kidnapped by highwaymen, or how she suspects that General Tilney may have murdered his wife, and later has to confess as much to his son Henry. 6. “Mansfield Park” -- Fanny Price comes across as the most insipid and uninteresting of Jane Austen’s heroines, while at the same time, Henry Crawford is a stalker and the most sinister bad guy to appear in an Austen novel. What's more, poor Fanny is left totally on her own in trying to fend him off. The whole tone of the story is gray and depressing, and Mansfield Park itself seems like a prison. The reader may find it strange that Fanny is so dead-set against any amateur theatricals while Sir Thomas Bertram is away, once you recall that Jane and her family loved writing and putting on plays at home in her younger days. I’m afraid I have nothing to say about “Lady Susan” as I haven’t read it yet.

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Due to my ignorance of the accent, I misheard the introduction of Lady Catherine as "Lady Catherine the Bird" lol

I love Mr. Knightley. He's probably the best male lead in the Jane Austen book universe besides Mr. Darcy. I like how Mr. Knightley is a firm but understanding figure in Emma's life. He recognizes her flaws and pushes her to evaluate her own behavior and become a better person. I think Mr. Knightley and Emma are probably the most compatible match in the entire Jane book universe because he quite frequently corrects her behavior and it pushes her to make the effort to view things from a different point of view and improve herself.

Edward is one of the weakest male leads in all of the books. He never grows a spine through the whole book and the only reason he ends up with the main female lead is because of circumstances out of his hands. He never stands up for anything, has any individual personality or agency. Colonel Brandon in my opinion is the real hero of the story who not only put Willoughby in his place, had to suffer the grief of Willoughby getting his adopted daughter pregnant, the same daughter who is the only connection to the woman he loved that his brother married, dumped and left in a poor house to die basically after giving birth and he step up to raise his brother's child as his own daughter, he saved Marianne on more than one occasion. Colonel Brandon earned his relationship with Marianne whereas Edward never did anything to earn his relationship with Elinor besides weakly love her from the sidelines. Edward is the male lead I like the least and that's saying something as I really don't care for either of the male leads from Mansfield Park.

thanks for the review

Maybe I am a little too late to be commenting on this video but just wanted to add that I think the scene of the movie where Mrs. Dashwood and Margaret go upstairs to cry after Marianne does was a nice touch because they were clearly very fond of Willoughby, he spent a lot of time in their home, Mrs. Dashwood seemed to be quite hopeful that her daughter would be part of a love match so she was most likely concerned and sad while Margaret was quite clueless of the whole situation of witnessing a friend (Willoughby) leaving without even saying goodbye and her sister rejecting her without explanation, she's a child that within one year had just lost her father, her other friend (Edward) hasn't visited yet and she was simply kicked out of her home recently so I have this idea that in her eyes there's so much disappointing situations around her. I think it was an interesting detail since the screenplay of the movie was set from Elinor's point of view and how crushing it was for her to endure her own heart while her family is also completely submerged in their own (justified) dramas, reaffirming her loneliness. Of course this is only my personal interpretation but as someone who grew up in an all-women household I perceived those details as a very common behavior of women from different ages facing such situations. I hope this makes any sense? Your comparison was very interesting, thank you!

I love this, it was the first book ever that I remember reading all the way through as a child.

I sort of got a turkish vibe from this also. Maybe so many close calls to getting killed are perhaps not necessary or appropriate for a child's book? There is also a fair share of characters that are evil, violent, and self-absorbed which sort of makes the fairy tale a bit more real, an introduction to the real word as you say. Bonus points for the creativity of magical things like turning a person into a donkey and talking animals, I absolutely love this. I've always liked books about perseverance and overcoming adversity - like you are rooting for the underdog - the most charming part of the story is how the boy and horse became friends and struggled but found their way home. I once wrote a poem titled road to home, maybe one day I will convert it into a song. That song at the beginning reminds me a bit of my heart your heart recorded by Liz Story. Was Oliver Twist a story with a boring main character ?

A charming story but I was devastated that there was no mention of the lamppost.😂

This was the first book of Narnia I ever read. Good memory. Edit: I never felt that all Calormens are bad, but they all are at heavy risk of getting twisted ... Like that Aravis's father is sort of decent, and her dead brother probably was, just that his wife talks him into it. Lasaralin oth is not really bad exactly, mostly an oblivious airhead, quite human I would say. I have no trouble imagining that Lewis modeled her on some English lady he had met. And these are the ruling class of an imperialistic, expansionistic state, who dislike having free neighbouring states run a different way, hmm, reminds me of something ... and well the politics of some empires and courts in history where pretty fierce, dangerous places, the Osman Empire among them. And yes I have read "Arabian Nights", and they are there too, but also a very noble knight named Aslan.

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Austen was definitely hinting at the slave trade by Sir Thomas' sugar plantations in Antigua. There was also this contemporaneous court case: "On 22 June 1772, William Murray, Lord Mansfield of Kenwood and Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench, ruled in the case of Somerset v Stewart that it was unlawful for Charles Steuart (or Stewart) to transport James Somerset, an enslaved African he had purchased in Virginia, forcibly out of England. When the verdict was announced, it sent political and legal shockwaves through Britain and its American colonies. Although the decision was technically a narrow one, it was popularly taken to mean that slavery was illegal in England and proved to be a landmark contribution to the abolitionist cause." WHO WAS LORD MANSFIELD? "At the time of the case, William Murray, Baron (later 1st Earl) of Mansfield, was living at Kenwood House, on the edge of Hampstead Heath, with his wife and two great-nieces, Lady Elizabeth Murray and Dido Belle. Dido, born in 1761, was the mixed-heritage daughter of an enslaved African woman known as Maria Bell and Mansfield’s nephew, Captain John Lindsay, who brought Dido to England and placed her in the care of his uncle in or before 1766."

Never seen any dramatisation of "Mansfield Park", I am curious about them ... all seem to have problems from the reviews. (I keep looking at the blue Floris cup. ❤)

I expect you would also like A Little Princess. The Making of a Marchioness (for adults) is quite interesting and enjoyable too.

I will never understand why Louisa jumped lmao

Oh God I'm so glad someone else finds Brandon creepy. He always bothered me lol

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😂 strong creep vibes

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1995 version shows a lot in facial expressions and body language.

I do like the movie ok, but there are some flaws. I really dislike how the movie aged Elinor, and even had her referred to as a spinster. In the book she’s a girl of nineteen. The movie also makes it seem like Elinor is untalented because she doesn’t play music. In the book she’s a talented painter.

This book is fine. Not the most engaging one, despite the Thorpes. Entertaining. Somebody just suggested it would be great to play around with for a young audience, make "modern" dramatisation, probably true.

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One of the things that this adaptation got right was the sound track. Instead of going with a big orchestral score, they used traditional songs, which I thought added to the authenticity.

I saw the 1999 film before I read the book. In fact, I read the book because I wanted to see how much of the slavery and plantation content was in the actual novel.

66 years ago when I was in the third grade, I first read “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” that I had borrowed from the county bookmobile when it visited our school. I tried over the years to find the book again as I had never forgotten the basic story line, but it was many years later that I saw the book on a friend’s office bookshelf along with the other six books in the set of “The Chronicles of Narnia”. This was my introduction to the fact that the book I remembered was part of a set about the land of Narnia and Aslan the Lion. I promptly borrowed the seven books from my friend and read them all. That set was the earlier version that was numbered in the order that the books had been published; so once again “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” was the first book. I later acquired my own set of the printed books and also a set of the audiobooks. I read and listened to them a number of times over the years, but it has been awhile since I’ve been through them. Watching this video has rekindled my desire to read or listen to them again. Narnia has never lost its place in my memory or its power to enchant!

doing the dishes and watching this is relaxing.

is it classified as a short story or a novel ?

That was a charming video, Lucella... no, Arnusie... darn it...

(Never read any book in the series!) What about Polly? Did Digory just move away and never think of her again? Her fate reminds me of Susan Pevensie's, later in the series (I just read Wikipedia for plot summaries). C.S. Lewis's misogyny was the gift that kept on giving, wasn't it? If I'd read the series as a child, I might have absorbed the incredibly harmful idea that girls are inferior to boys.

I've always wanted to read the book

a bit of nostalgia for me too - my brother was a gamer and I remember this was one of the many books that crept into my life as a child because of his interest, what I find interesting is the creativity seemingly without boundaries is sort of mind expanding about how such a reality could exist, even if it is put together haphazardly the imagination and creativity is quite inspiring your videos are inspiring and I will confess you made me want to write music again, have been working on a romance for violin for several weeks sometimes I think the violin is the only thing that understands how I feel but what i'm really thinking is I wish I was your dog

The suspension of disbelief is a prerequisite for enjoying childrens' stories.In any case this particular tale has enough charm to tolerate any shortcomings.😊

No one mentions that Heathcliff is a victim of Hindley's abuse. He wasn't evil to begin with and his behaviour is a reaction to the abuse,; it's made even worse when Catherine rejects him for Edgar..

Small point: "Nancy" is a common diminutive of "Anne" - and both are used in the book, and so are correct. How old is Eliza Williams? The book is not specific, but Brandon says that he is going back 14 years when he finds Eliza's mother (also called Eliza), who has a child of three years: assuming (a) that he is remembering from the point at which he is relating the history to Elinor and (b) that the time lag and the child's age are both approximate, Eliza Williams could be as young as 14 or could be 16. Certainly she is not anything like 19, and I suspect that the change was not due to the perceived sensibilities of a 1990s audience (they might be shocked, but would not be surprised, at a 24-yr-old seducing a 14-, 15 or even 16 year-old) but rather to the film's softening of Willoughby's character.

Some points: a) Colonel Brandon joins (or is forced by his father to join) the army and serves in India - there are no colonels in the navy. b) I'm not sure that, even "reading between the lines", we can say that Colonel Brandon probably told Mrs Smith - when could he have told her? c) why are you so generous to Willoughby? He is not complicated - he's a spoilt brat who blames everybody but himself for his problems and couldn't care less about the trouble he causes others (in his monologue to Elinor, he makes no mention of any reparation to Eliza. He is Elinor is full of contradictions: - of Eliza he says: "... the violence of her passions, the weakness of her understanding...." (but) I do not mean, however, to defend myself" - no, not much! Of his wife he says "I had reason to believe myself secure (of her) if I chose to address her...". Later he says "My wife)..knew I had no regard for her when we married...." Now both statements might be dishonest, but they can't both be true. Incidentally, we have no first-hand knowledge of Miss Grey - we have only gossip from Mrs Jennings, facts from Brandon, and disparaging remarks from Willoughby - the last being contradicted in the book's last two pages "he lived to exert and frequently enjoy himself, His wife was not always out of humour not his home always uncomfortable.." And Eliza? - who cares about her, or her child?

Listen I watched the movie and I gotta be honest it wasn’t that naughty it was badly pg 13 no nipples or anything good

I have to point out, Mr. Dashwood's Uncle was a complete jerk for leaving EVERYTHING to the male heir with only 1000 pounds each to the girls.

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It's not actually a dark ending by HCA standards (compare with The Red Shoes!). On the contrary, the significant thing is its upbeat ending. It's curious and disjointed how he suddenly departs from the intrinsically tragic nature of the story and avoids the natural grim conclusion (either she should die or the boy should die). It's either a cop out by HCA or he wanted to give hope where normally it doesn't exist.

Oh, I'm a publication order for this series. How did you read it as a child? So much sorta gets spoiled in the chronological order.

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The acceptance of a proposal, and rapid turnaround to rejecting it the next morning, is straight out of Austen's own life (Harris Bigg-Wither). As is the 'Complete History of England...' - and of course all the other references to Fanny as an aspiring writer.

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Are you sure the book isn't called The Rings Of Power?😂How is the third installment of Leaves Of Holly coming along?