Seeing the same events unfold from his eyes does not absolve him of his bad behavior, but as the narrative progresses, we are more sympathetic to his reasons. We meet him and draw our conclusions of his personality from her perspective-he is a proud and disagreeable man-we see why she thinks so, but we do not know why. In Pride and Prejudice, the reader sympathizes with the heroine Elizabeth Bennet in her dislike of Mr. Writing a first-person narrative of a classic hero who is a bit of a prig in the original story has its challenges. She has a large international following for her work which she has earned through honest homage and clever craftsmanship. My copy retains its place of honor on my Austen sequel bookshelf, along with the five other novels in her Austen Hero Diaries Series that Grange has since produced. I paid a fortune for the first edition to be shipped to the US.

I first read Darcy’s Diary eight years ago when it was released in the UK. Darcy’s Diary remains, after many other attempts, the best in a very crowded field of Darcyiana. It was certainly not the first novel to explore this concept, but Mr. In 2005 author Amanda Grange gave Pride and Prejudice fans what they had been craving for centuries-Jane Austen’s classic story retold entirely from the perspective of its iconic romantic hero-Mr.

Mr. Darcy's Diary by Amanda Grange