Stacy King
Auteur van Manga Classics: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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See the full review and more at baileysbook.home.blog!
Recommended: yup!
For a pared down version of the original story, for illustrations that give depth to small moments that may be missed in the original, for a quicker read of a classic story
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Another wonderful Manga Classics adaptation! I finished [b:Manga Classics: Macbeth|37691135|Manga Classics Macbeth|Crystal S. Chan|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1518211801l/37691135._SX50_.jpg|60023690] and knew I had to look up some of their other works after seeing how excellent that one was. Since Pride and Prejudice is such a lengthy text, they had to adapt it rather than maintaining the full text as with Shakespeare's. The idea of the story is maintained, and it turns into a quick read of a familiar story, good for if you want the story but also want to give time to other games as well.
The drawback to the condensing of the story are the details that are missing. I'm not the first to note that the banter that's such a feature of Jane Austen's original work are notably absent, to keep the story length manageable. The art brings some of that back, though, so it's really a constant tradeoff.
So: a bit of a different experience of the story, but that's as would be expected. I quite enjoyed the quick read of the adaptation, and the artwork drew details into moments that might otherwise have been missed.… (meer)