傲慢与偏见 英文书评 6寸pdf kindle版

Writing style

Compared to other early19th-century novels,Austen's have little narrative or scenic description—they contain much more dialogue,whether spoken between characters,written as free indirect speech, or represented through letters.[25]For example,in Pride and Prejudice,which began as an epistolary novel,letters play a decisive role in the protagonist's education[26]and the opening chapters are theatrical in tone.[27]Austen's conversations contain many short sentences,question and answer pairs, and rapid exchanges between characters, most memorable perhaps in the witty repartee between Elizabeth and Darcy.[28]

Austen grants each of her characters a distinctive and subtlety-constructed voice:

they are carefully distinguished by their speech.Austen uses conversations about literature in particular to establish an implicit moral frame of reference.

Book review

Jane Austen is one of the great masters of the English language,and PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is her great masterpiece,a sharp and witty comedy of manners played out in early19th Century English society,a world in which men held virtually all the power and women were required to negotiate mine-fields of social status,respectability,wealth,love,and sex in order to marry both to their own liking and to the advantage of their family. And such is particularly the case of the

Bennetts,a family of daughters whose father's estate is entailed to a distant relative,for upon Mr.Bennett's death they will lose home,land,income,everything. But are the Bennett daughters up to playing a winning hand in this high-stakes matrimonial game without forfeiting their own personal integrity?

This battle of the sexes is largely seen through the eyes of second daughter Elizabeth,who possesses a razor-sharp wit and rich sense of humor--and who finds herself hindered by her own addlepated mother,her sister Jane's hopeless love for the wealthy Mr.Bingley, and her sister Lydia's penchant for scandal...not to mention the high-born, formidable,and outrageously proud Mr. Darcy,who seems determined to trump

her every card.But the game of love proves more surprising than either Elizabeth or Mr.Darcy can imagine,and sometimes a seemingly weak hand proves a winning one when all cards are on the table.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is simply one of the funniest novels ever written,peopled with memorable characters brought vividly to life as they both succeed and fail at the game of life according to the manners of their era.It is a novel to which I return again and again,enjoying Austen's brillant talent.I have little respect for people who describe it as dull, slow,out of date,for as long as men and women live and fall in love it will never be out of style,always be meaningful,and always be funny.A masterpiece of wit and