PRIDE & PREJUDICE傲慢与偏见
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作者： Jane Austen 著
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出版时间： 1997-9-1字数：版次： 1页数： 329印刷时间：开本： 32开印次： 1纸张：I S B N ： 9781853260001包装： 平装内容简介
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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He came down in a chaise and faur to see the place
Mr and Mrs Bennet
I hope Mr Bingley will like it
Though I am the youngest, I'm thetallest
When the party entered
He sat close to her for half an hour without once opening his lips
The entreaties of several that she would sing again
A note for Miss Bennet
Many cheerful prognostics of a bad day
They all paint tables, cover screens and net purses
Mrs Bennet, accompanied by her two youngest girls
No, no; stay where you are
The first half hour was spent in piling up tbe fire
He started back, and begging pardon, protested that be never read novels
To examine their own indifferent imitations of china on the mantelpiece
The officers of the --shire were in general a very creditable,gentlemanlike set
The two ladies were delighted to see their dear friend again
Such very superior dancing is not often seen
To assure you in the most animated language
They entered the breakfast-room
Wickbam and another officer walked back with themto Longbourn So much love and eloquence
Protested he must be entirely mistaken
Wbenever she spoke in a low voice to Mr Collins
Offended two or tbree young ladies
Will you come and see me?
On the stairs were a troop of little boys and girls
Mr Collins and Cbarlotte appeared at tbe door
'Lady Catherine,' said she, 'you bave given me a treasure
He never failed coming to inform them
The gentlemen accompanied him At church
Now and then accompanied by their aunt
She saw on looking up that Colond Fitzwilliam was meeting her
Reading Jane's letters
In vain have I struggled
Meeting him accidentally in town Dawson
They had hitherto forgotten to leave any message for the ladies of Rosings
How nicely we are crammed in?
I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody
When Colonel Millar's regiment went away
She saw hersdf seated beneath a tent, tenderly flirting
Mr and Mrs Gardiner, with their four children
The sound of a carriage drew them to the window
To make herself agreeable to all
I have not an instant to lose
The first pleasing earnest of their welcome
To wbom I bare related tbe affair
They saw the housekeeper coming towards them
But perhaps you would like to read it
The spiteful old ladies in Meryton
With an affectionate smile
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