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Title: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Isobel Armstrong ISBN: 0-19-283355-3 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: classic
Comment: My favorite chapter in the novel Pride and Prejudice is chapter 16 of volume III (or chapter 58) because Elizabeth finally accepts Darcy's marriage proposal. It amazed me how she was still able to say yes after she was insulted in every way possible especially after disliking him so much in the beginning of the novel.
This book is appropriate for anyone who is able to appreciate well-written literature. Anyone would enjoy reading this book, from teenagers to adults.
One literary device I appreciated was epigram, which is a brief, clever, and usually memorable statement. An example of this would be "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in wants of a wife" which is found on the first page of the novel. The entire novel was based on this quote. Mrs. Bennet wanted to get all five of her daughters married before her husband died.
I liked the novel. I found Elizabeth's romance with Darcy intriguing. It was interesting how in the beginning she rejected his proposal and disliked him, and at the end she marries him.
Rating: 5
Summary: Jane Austen's greatest literary creation: Elizabeth Bennet
Comment: The Bennet family has five unmarried daughters and when Charles Bingley, a rich bachelor, arrives at nearby Netherfield, Mrs. Bennet sets her sights on him as a prize catch. At a ball at Meryton everyone agrees they like the openhearted Mr. Bingley, who has developed an affection for the Bennet's oldest daughter, Jane, but they find his friend Fitzwilliam Darcy to be an arrogant and disdainful fellow. For their part, Mr. Darcy and Bingley's sisters are repelled by the Bennet's lower status and the embarrassing Mrs. Bennet. At the ball, Elizabeth Bennet, the second oldest daughter, overhears Darcy the man say she is not handsome enough to prove a temptation to him. However, when Jane becomes ill on a visit to Netherfield, Lizzy arrives to nurse her sister. Mr. Darcy is impressed with her lively mind, but cannot see himself falling in love with someone from a poorer family.
The Bennet's estate at Longbourn is entailed to Mr. Collins, a clergyman who is Mr. Bennet's nearest male relative. In search of a bride, Collins arrives to consider the Bennet daughters while prattling on about his patron, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Meanwhile, Elizabeth becomes infatuated with George Wickham, a handsome and charming militia officer, who has apparently suffered great personal wrong at the hands of Mr. Darcy. Elizabeth now considers Darcy to be not only proud, but cruel, and she is only to happy to have her own prejudice against him confirmed by Wickham. Bingley is removed to London, where his sisters and Darcy can keep him away from a heartbroken Jane and when Elizabeth refuses Mr. Collins's proposal of marriage, he is accepted by Charlotte Lucas, Elizabeth's best friend, who sees it as a calculated move of social advancement. Even more shocking, Elizabeth receives a second proposal from Mr. Darcy, who speaks disdainfully of her family and ruefully admits he has been unable to conquer his imprudent affection for her. Of course, Elizabeth rejects this insulting proposal as well. But then she begins to learns things that call Wickham's character into serious question, and have her rethinking her low opinion of Mr. Darcy.
"Pride and Prejudice" is probably the most popular of Jane Austen's novels, with its emphasis on character and her comic look at the human condition where considerations of class are ultimately no match for true love and a temperant meeting of similar minds. Certainly we can point to more important novels in the history of Western Literature, but we would be hard pressed to find as important a novelist as Jane Austen, with her rejection of the tenets of Romanticism. Whereas the romantics celebrated the power of emotions, Austen's work embodies a strong belief in rational thinking, which finds no better embodiment than in the character of Elizabeth Bennet. The selection of this as the one Jane Austen novel to read if for some silly reason you decide only to read one in your entire life would be justified on that character more than the plot line.
Rating: 5
Summary: That girl's got moxie!
Comment: Meet the Bennet sisters: demure Jane, witty Elizabeth, bookish Mary, impressionable Kitty, and lusty Lydia. It's the usual story: they don't have much in the way of dowries but need to marry upstanding English gentlemen...
Elizabeth Bennet quickly emerges as the heroine with her wry sense of humor and take-no-prisoners attitude to social life. She puts all twentieth century heroines to shame when she tells off Mr. Darcy (while maintaining perfect decorum). Unusual twists and turns spark up the "marriage plot" of the book. There are some great villains, too.
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Title: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, James Kinsley ISBN: 0192833588 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Emma ` by Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Adela Pinch ISBN: 0192802372 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Persuasion by Jane Austen ISBN: 0451526384 Publisher: Signet Classics Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Jane Stabler ISBN: 019280264X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Emma by Jane Austen ISBN: 0553212737 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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