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Article: 'Pride and Prejudice' is the latest adventure in the Jane Austen revival.(Originated from Orange County Register)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- January 11, 1996
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Fitzwilliam Darcy is rich, handsome and horribly haughty.
Lizzie Bennet is church-mouse poor, porcelain pretty, and outrageously opinionated.
He wants her. She won't have him.
Together they're gasoline and matches. And when their hormones explode they turn A&E miniseries ``Pride and Prejudice'' into the fiercest romantic firestorm since Rhett Butler didn't give a damn about Scarlett O'Hara in ``Gone with the Wind.''
``It's such a compulsive love story,'' English actress Jennifer Ehle said recently of ``Pride and Prejudice'' _ both the six-hour A&E/BBC co-production in which she plays Lizzie and the serio-comic Jane Austen novel of 19th century ...