Pride and Prejudice Revisited

Posted by Andree Lachapelle Aug 10, 2006

I have long been a fan of good old "P & P," - "Pride and Prejudice" - Jane Austen's classic tale of unrequited love, passion, lack of love, too much love, love found, lost, and found again, and and and ... the mind boggles!

What aspect of love isn't covered by "Pride and Prejudice"?

Darcy's side of the story, of course.

So it goes that just as I silently, quietly prepared to acquire the DVD of the popular British mini-series - Gasp! The TV series? Yes, the TV series! - to settle into another long winter (I plan ahead,) in my mailbox lands a tome that is bound to shake my beliefs, rattle my cage, and titillate me beyond words. Namely: "Darcy's Story," by Janet Aylmer.

The British Jane Austen buff - who used a nom de plume to pen this departure from the beloved Colin Firth fantasmatron - has taken it upon herself to boldly go where no woman has gone before. A place so dark and no doubt filled with such passionate calamity that even Ms. Austen herself did not dare enter: the mind of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy himself!

Oh, what wonders lie beneath the stoic surface, behind the stiff starched shirt and the stiff upper lip!

I almost squealed with delight when I saw the book!

I am almost afraid to touch it!

"Pride and Prejudice told from a whole new perspective," the cover states.

Be still my beating heart!

Almost two hundred years after his first encounter with Miss Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy finally gets a word in edgewise!

I can't wait to hear what he has to say.