Pride and Prejudice (傲慢与偏见)
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品牌: Jane Austen
基本信息·出版社：NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
·页码：329 页
·出版日期：1991年
·ISBN：1853260002
·条形码：9781853260001
·包装版本：1版
·装帧：平装
·开本：32
·正文语种：英语
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内容简介《Pride and Prejudice (傲慢与偏见)》讲述了：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.
作者简介Jane Austen, seventh of the eight children of Reverend George and Cassandra Leigh Austen, was born on December 16, 1775, in the small village of Steventon in Hampshire, England. Her childhood was happy: her home was full of books and many friends and her parents encouraged both their children's intellectual interests and their passion for producing and performing in amateur theatricals. Austen's closest relationship, one that would endure throughout her life, was with her beloved only sister, Cassandra.
From about the time she was twelve years old, Austen began writing spirited parodies of the popular Gothic and sentimental fiction of the day for the amusement of her family. Chock-full of stock characters, vapid and virtuous heroines, and improbable coincidences, these early works reveal in nascent form many of her literary gifts: particularly her ironic sensibility, wit, and gift for comedy. Attempts at more sustained, serious works began around 1794 with a novel in letters - a popular form at the time - called Lady Susan, and in the years immediately following with two more epistolary novels - one called Elinor and Marianne, the other First Impressions - that would evolve into Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. Lady Susan, later revised and entitled Northanger Abbey, also was begun in that period.
Her revised version of Elinor and Marianne - Sense and Sensibility - was published, like all the work which appeared in print in her lifetime, anonymously, in 1811. Emma appeared in 1816 and was reviewed favorably by the most popular novelist of the day, Sir Walter Scott. Scott insightfully pointed out Emma's significance in representing the emergence of a new kind of novel, one concerned with the texture of ordinary life.
Though all her novels were concerned with courtship, love, and marriage, Austen never married. There is some evidence that she had several flirtations with eligible men in her early twenties, and speculation that in 1802 she agreed to marry the heir of a Hampshire family but then changed her mind. Austen rigorously guarded her privacy, and after her death, her family censored and destroyed many of her letters. Little is known of her personal experience or her favorite subjects. However, Austen's reputation as a "dowdy bluestocking," as literary critic Ronald Blythe points out, is far from accurate: "she loved balls, cards, wine, music, country walks, conversation, children, and bad as well as excellent novels."
In 1816, as she worked to complete her novel Persuasion, Austen's health began to fail. She continued to work, preparing Northanger Abbey for publication, and began a light-hearted, satirical work called Sanditon which she never finished. She died at the age of forty-two on July 18, 1817, in the arms of her beloved sister, Cassandra, of what historians now believe to have been Addison's disease.
The identity of "A Lady" who wrote the popular novels was known in her lifetime only to her family and a few elite readers, among them the Prince Regent, who invited Austen to visit his library and "permitted" her to dedicate Emma to him (unaware, no doubt, that she loathed him). But Austen deliberately avoided literary circles; in Ronald Blythe's words, "literature, not the literary life, was always her intention." It was not until the December following her death, when Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published, that "a biographical notice of the author" by Austen's brother Henry appeared in the books, revealing to the reading public for the first time the name of Jane Austen.
媒体推荐From Library Journal：
Austen is the hot property of the entertainment world with new feature film versions of Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility on the silver screen and Pride and Prejudice hitting the TV airwaves on PBS. Such high visibility will inevitably draw renewed interest in the original source materials. These new Modern Library editions offer quality hardcovers at affordable prices.
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——This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
"The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste."
——Virginia Woolf
编辑推荐《Pride and Prejudice (傲慢与偏见)》Wordsworth Classics are inexpensive editions designed to appeal to the general reader and students. We commissioned teachers and specialists to write wide ranging, jargon-free introductions and to provide notes that would assist the understanding of our readers rather than interpret the stories for them. In the same spirit, because the pleasures of reading are inseparable from the surprises, secrets and revelations that all narratives contain, we strongly advise you to enjoy this book before turning to the Introduction.
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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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文摘At length however Mrs Bennet had no more to say; and Lady Lucas,who had been long yawning at the repetition of delights which she saw nolikelihood of sharing, was left to the comforts of cold ham and chicken.Elizabeth now began to revive. But not long was the interval oftranquillity; for when supper was over, singing was talked of, and she hadthe mortification of seeing Mary, after very little entreaty, preparing tooblige the company. By many significant looks and silent entreaties, didshe endeavour to prevent such a proof of complaisance, - but in vain;Mary would not understand them; such an opportunity of exhibiting wasdelightful to her, and she began her song. Elizabeth's eyes were fixed onher with most painful sensations; and she watched her progress throughthe several stanzas with an impatience which was very ill rewarded attheir close; for Mary, on receiving amongst the thanks of the table, thehint of a hope that she might be prevailed on to favour them again, afterthe pause of half a minute began another. Mary's powers were by nomeans fitted for such a display; her voice was weak, and her manneraffected. - Elizabeth was in agonies. She looked at Jane, to see how shebore it; but Jane was very composedly talking to Bingley. She looked athis two sisters, and saw them making signs of derision at each other, andat Darcy, who continued however impenetrably grave. She looked at herfather to entreat his interference, lest Mary should be singing all night.He took the hint, and when Mary had finished her second song, saidaloud,'That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us longenough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.'Mary, though pretending not to hear, was somewhat disconcerted; andElizabeth sorry for her, and sorry for her father's speech, was afraid heranxiety had done no good. - Others of the party were now applied to.'If I,' said Mr Collins, 'were so fortunate as to be able to sing, I shouldhave great pleasure, I am sure, in obliging th
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