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Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Austen's six remarkable novels. Full of crackling dialogue, it achieves the finest balance of comedy and reflection, liveliness and solemnity. While revealing the restrictive life of genteel women at the turn of the nineteenth century, it provides as the central consciousness the clever, witty, and flirtatious Elizabeth Bennet, arguably Austen's most alluring heroine. One of the great love stories of English literature, the novel has spawned countless films and fantasies. In its brilliant balance of psychological observation and social comedy, the original effortlessly survives its global exploitation. The novels Austen wrote later in life were more complex but, drafted when the author was close to her heroine's age of twenty, Pride and Prejudice remains her most vivacious and sparkling work. Prefaces and explanatory endnotes supplied by Janet Todd illuminate the cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; Pride and Prejudice; General Notes.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Janet Todd is a critic, editor, novelist and biographer of Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters, and Irish pupils. Her latest novel is Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden (2022). Todd taught at Rutgers, UEA, Glasgow and Aberdeen. A former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she is now an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College.
Zusammenfassung
Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Austen's six remarkable novels, achieving the finest balance of comedy and reflection, liveliness and solemnity. It is considered one of the great love stories of English literature. Explanatory endnotes illuminate the cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.
Vorwort
The most popular of Austen's six novels, Pride and Prejudice is one of the great love stories of English literature.
