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the empire strikes back.(Pride and Prejudice)

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If you have a taste for historical costume dramas and love to see grand-scale dresses up there on

the screen, the best place to look is usually a romance based on a novel by Jane Austen. Remember the 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice, with Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy? Rosy-cheeked Kate Winslet in Sense and Sensibility? Willowy Gwyneth

Paltrow in Emma?

The new version of Pride and Prejudice stars the pouty-mouthed Keira Knightley as heroine Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters in search of suitable husbands. The book was a witty masterpiece, and those who enjoy wallowing in the spectacle of

the British nobility as seen through the lens ...

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