If you want to spend some winter days in an intriguing atmosphere, why not plunge into the British Society of the XIX century? With gripping and intense plots, Pride and Prejudice and Death Comes to Pemberly could give you a clear image of that environment.

The first aspect that strikes you is the ability of P.D. James, author of Death Comes to Pemberly to write in exact the same, remarkable style as Jane Austen. Also common to both novels are the characters, which maintain not only their names and roles but also their original perosnality, with a realistic description of power of feelings and thaughts. But it is also in the setting and in the representation of the landscapes given by the authors that the two books resemble each other the most.

The main difference between Death Comes to Pemberly and Pride and Prejudice is given by the variation of literary genre. In fact the first one is an origianl exemple of a detective novel whereas the second is the classic representation of the romance novel. Moreover, whilst in the Jane Austen book most of the story is set in Longbourn, the P.D. James one takes place in Pemberly.

The admirable writing ability of the writer of Death Comes to Pemberly makes this novel rather agreable although Pride and Prejudice reamains an inimitable model of writing and poetry