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Pride and Prejudice

内容简介

PrideandPrejudice,whichopenswithoneofthemostfamoussentencesinEnglishLiterature,isanironicnovelofmanners.Initthegarrulousandempty-headedMrsBennethasonlyoneaim-thatoffindingagoodmatchforeachofherfivedaughters.Inthissheismockedbyhercynicalandindolenthusband.Withitswit,itssocialprecisionand,aboveall,itsirresistibleheroine,PrideandPrejudicehasprovedoneofthemostenduringlypopularnovelsintheEnglishlanguage.《傲慢与偏见》通过几位村镇中产阶级姑娘谈婚论嫁的故事，反映十八世纪末至十九世纪初英国社会的世态风习。小说情节曲折、富有喜剧性，语言自然流畅、机智幽默，以精湛的技巧揭示了生活的悲喜剧。十八世纪末叶，英国小说似乎发展到了一个潴留阶段。从这个世纪之初开始，以丹尼尔·笛福和乔纳森·斯威夫特为前导，英国小说经过亨利·菲尔丁、塞缪尔·理查森等小说大家的昌隆盛世，到此时已显出“世纪末”的征候。社会上流行择上述作家的效颦之作，使得晚餐后壁炉前的家庭阅读活动变得索然无味，而当时正在时兴的哥特式小说，又以它那离奇、恐怖的情节将读者的神经刺激得麻木不仁。正当这样一个时候，英格兰中南部汉普顿郡的斯蒂文顿镇出了个令人耳目一新的女作家简·奥斯丁（1775—1817）。

作者简介

JaneAustenwasbornonDecember16,1775atSteventonnearBasingstoke,theseventhchildoftherectoroftheparish.ShelivedwithherfamilyatSteventonuntiltheymovedtoBathwhenherfatherretiredin1801.Afterhisdeathin1805,shemovedaroundwithhermother;in1809,theysettledinChawton,nearAlton,Hampshire.Heresheremained,exceptforafewvisitstoLondon,untilinMay1817shemovedtoWinchestertobenearherdoctor.ThereshediedonJuly18,1817.AsagirlJaneAustenwrotestories,includingburlesquesofpopularromances.Herworkswereonlypublishedaftermuchrevision,fournovelsbeingpublishedinherlifetime.TheseareSenseandSensibility(1811),PrideandPrejudice(1813),MansfieldPark(1814)andEmma(1816).Twoothernovels,NorthangerAbbeyandPersuasion,werepublishedposthumouslyin1818withabiographicalnoticebyherbrother,HenryAusten,thefirstformalannouncementofherauthorship.Persuasionwaswritteninaraceagainstfailinghealthin1815-16.Shealsolefttwoearliercompositions,ashortepistolarynovel,LadySusan,andanunfinishednovel,TheWatsons.Atthetimeofherdeath,shewasworkingonanewnovel,Sanditon,afragmentarydraftofwhichsurvives.简·奥斯汀，是英国著名女性小说家，她的作品主要关注乡绅家庭女性的婚姻和生活，以女性特有的细致入微的观察力和活泼风趣的文字真实地描绘了她周围世界的小天地。

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