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June Austen is one of the most well-known and widely-read English novelists of all times. Her other published works are-A'Sense and SensibilityA', A'Mansfield ParkA', and A'EmmaA'.AustenA's transformation into one of the greatest writers in English history began only after her death. Her works started attracting scholarly attention in the 1920s.Today, AustenA's works have become an important part of popular culture. They are not only a part of the English curriculum in school and collages but there are also many film and television adaptations of A'EmmaA', A'Mansfield ParkA', A'Pride and PrejudiceA' and A'Sense and SensibilityA'A"What is Mr. Darcy to me, pray, that I should be afraid of him? I am sure we owe his no such particular civility as to be obliged to say nothing he may not like to hear.A"A"For heavenA's sake, madam, speak lower. What advantage can it be for you to offend Mr. Darcy? You will never recommend yourself to his friend by so doing!A"--A'ExcerptA'

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Publié par	Diamond Books
Date de parution	06 avril 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789390504640
Langue	English

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Pride Prejudice

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Pride Prejudice
By – Jane Austen

J ane Austen is one of the most well-known and widely-read English novelists of all times. Born on December 16, 1775, at the rectory in the village of Steventon, in Hampshire, England, she was the seventh child and second daughter of Reverend George Austen and his wife Cassandra Austen. Jane Austen was mainly educated at home by her father and her brothers, Henry and James. She read extensively from her father’s library and that not only compensated for the absence of formal education, but also gave her much inspiration for the short satirical sketches that she wrote as a young girl.
Jane had a happy childhood with her siblings and was almost inseparable from her elder sister, Casssandra. The Austen children were encouraged to pursue literary and other creative pastimes. They often wrote and performed plays and charades and engaged in discussions about a variety of topics. In the words of Park Honan, a biographer of Austen, the Austen household had ‘an open, amused, easy intellectual atmosphere’.
Jane’s fascination with words and with the world of stories, therefore, began quite early. In the 1790s, during her adolescence, she started writing her own novels, the first one being Love and Freindship [sic]—a parody of romantic fiction organized as a series of love letters. The second one, The History of England , was a thirty-four page parody of historical writing about England, with about thirteen watercolour miniatures done by her elder sister, Cassandra. Later, Austen, herself, made ‘fair copies of her early works in three bound notebooks. These notebooks, containing novels, short stories, poems, as well as plays, are now referred to as Jane’s Juvenilia.
As a young woman, still living with parents, Austen engaged in such social and domestic activities as were normal for women of her age and social standing. She played the fortepiano, assisted her sister and mother in running the Austen household, attended church regularly, and socialized frequently with friends and neighbours. Socializing often meant dancing, sometimes impromptu and sometimes in the frequently held balls in the town hall. As her brother Henry later commented, Jane was fond of dancing and excelled in it’. Austen also read novels—often of her own composition-aloud to her family in the evenings.
Somewhere around 1789, Austen decided to become a professional writer and ‘write for profit… to make stories her central effort. And beginning in about 1793, she began to write longer, more sophisticated works. The next two years saw Austen writing Lady Susan , a short epistolary novel about a woman who uses her intelligence and charm to manipulate, betray, and abuse her victims. Lady Susan was published as Northanger Abbey by Jane’s brother, Henry, following her death.
From 1796 to 1797, Jane was occupied with the writing of a second novel, First Impressions . She would read it aloud to her family in the evenings, as she did with other novels, and soon it became an ‘established favourite’ with the Austen household. The first draft of First Impressions was completed sometime in the summer of 1797. Jane was just twenty-one-years old at that time. This work was to be later published as Pride and Prejudice .
Sense and Sensibility , Jane’s second most-famous work, began as yet another epistolary story with the working title Elinor and Marianne. Though she started work on it much before 1796, it was only in mid-1798 that she picked it up again and finished revising it.
In 1801, Austen’s father decided to retire and move to Bath with his wife and two daughters. Four years later however, he died after a short illness. As a result, the three Austen women found themselves in a strained financial situation and were forced to move from place to place, alternating between the homes of various family members and rented flats. It was only in 1809 that they were finally able to settle into a stable situation at Jane’s brother Edward’s cottage in Chawton.
Between 1811 to 1816, Jane started to anonymously publish her works. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park , and Emma were all published during this time.
In 1816, at the age of forty-one, Austen became ill with Addison’s disease. However, she continued working-editing older works and even starting a new novel called The Brothers (which would be published after her death as Sandition ). Austen’s condition, however, deteriorated to such an extent that she was forced to completely stop writing. She died on July 18, 1817.
It was only after Austen’s death that her identity was revealed to the public. Though her work had achieved a fair amount of fame and financial success while she was still alive, Austen’s transformation into one of the greatest writers in English history began only after her death. Her works started attracting scholarly attention in the 1920s and came to be recognized as brilliant masterpieces and revealing commentaries on the social conditions of Austen’s time. Today, Austen’s works have become an important part of popular culture. They are not only a part of the English curriculum in schools and colleges, but there are also many film and television adaptations of Emma, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility .
Table Of Content
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 1
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day, “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?”
Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.
“But it is,” returned she; “for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.”
Mr. Bennet made no answer.
“Do you not want to know who has taken it?” cried his wife impatiently.
“ You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.”
This was invitation enough.
“Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.”
“What is his name?”
“Bingley.”
“Is he married or single?”
“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”
“How so? How can it affect them?”
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, “how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”
“Is that his design in settling here?”
“Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.”
“I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party.”
“My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.”
“In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of.”
“But, my dear, you must indeed go and see Mr. Bingley when he comes into the neighbourhood.”
“It is more than I engage for, I assure you.”
“But consider your daughters. Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them. Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined to go, merely on that account, for in general, you know, they visit no newcomers. Indeed you must go, for it will be impossible for us to visit him if you do not.”
“You are over-scrupulous, surely. I dare say Mr. Bingley will be very glad to see you; and I will send a few lines by you to assure him of my hearty consent to his marrying whichever he chooses of the girls; though I must throw in a good word for my little Lizzy.”
“I desire you will do no such thing. Lizzy is not a bit better than the others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia. But you are always giving her the preference.”
“They have none of them much to recommend them,” replied he; “they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.”
“Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.”
“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them w