Eligible: A Modern Retelling Of Pride And Prejudice

"Pride and Prejudice has inspired endless adaptations, but rarely has anyone captured Austen’s wry and antic spirit like Curtis Sittenfeld in Eligible. Sittenfeld isolates what makes Jane Austen endure (her social and moral acuity; her interest in what makes a good life), from the historical context (bonnets and balls) that so many adaptations fetishize. Instead, Sittenfeld brilliantly shows how much richer life is for the story’s heroines now, and what forces they are when they get out of the drawing room and into the world."