傲慢与偏见的英文概要

傲慢与偏见的英文概要
傲慢与偏见的英文概要

傲慢与偏见的英文概要
简介
A perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Editions series,Pride and Prejudice is based on the 1813 first edition text,which has been thoroughly annotated for undergraduate readers.
"Backgrounds and Sources" includes biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and by acclaimed biographers Claire Tomalin and David Nokes.Seventeen of Austen's letters—eight of them new to the Third Edition—allow readers to glimpse the close-knit society that was Austen's world,both in life and in her writing.Samples of Austen's early writing—from the epistolary Love and FriendshipA Collection of Letters—allow readers to trace her growth as a writer as well as to read her fiction comparatively.
"Criticism" features eighteen assessments of the novel by nineteenth- and twentieth-century commentators,six of them new to the Third Edition.Among them is an interview with Colin Firth on the recent BBC television adaptation of the novel.Also included are pieces by Richard Whately,Margaret Oliphant,Richard Simpson,D.W.Harding,Dorothy Van Ghent,Alistair Duckworth,Stuart Tave,Marilyn Butler,Nina Auerbach,Susan Morgan,Claudia L.Johnson,Susan Fraiman,Deborah Kaplan,Tara Goshal Wallace,Cheryl L.Nixon,David Spring,Edward Ahearn,and Donald Gray.
Also included are a Note on Money,a Chronology of Austen's life and work—new to the Third Edition—and an updated Selected Bibliography.
About the Series:No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions.Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehenive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully.Careful editing,first-rate translation,and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students.Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print.Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

Introduction
Pride and Prejudice is the most enduringly popular novel written by Jane Austen. It talks about trivial matters of love, marriage and family life between country squires and fair lad...

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Introduction
Pride and Prejudice is the most enduringly popular novel written by Jane Austen. It talks about trivial matters of love, marriage and family life between country squires and fair ladies in Britain in the 18th century. The plot is very simple. That is how the young ladies choose their husbands. Someone said that “Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the novel, flatly rejected William Collins’ proposal, who is the heir of her father’s property and manor, and refused the first proposal from the extremely wealthy nobleman Fitzwilliam Darcy later,”(1) all this makes it clear that Elizabeth “seeks no fame nor fortune, but self-improvement and high mental outlook.”(1) It’s right. From the view point of Austen, Elizabeth’s marriage, who finally marries Darcy, as well as Jane-Bingley’s, composing money and love, is the ideal marriage people should after. But in other marriage cases in this novel, we can see that if money and love can’t be held together in one marriage, love would always make a concession to money because of the special social background. After reading through the whole book, we will find that money acts as the cause of each plot and the clue of its development. It affects everybody’s words and deeds, even Elizabeth Bennet. Tony Tanner once said, “Jane Austen, as well as other authors, is very clear that no feeling could be extremely pure and no motive could be definitely single. But as long as it is possible, we should make it clear that which feeling or motive plays the leading role.” (2)

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