标题：Pride and Prejudice
基本信息
·出版社：中央编译出版社  ·页码：505 页
·出版日期：2008年09月
·ISBN：7802117321/9787802117327
·条形码：9787802117327
·版本：第1版
·装帧：平装
·开本：32
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：Pride and Prejudice
内容简介
《傲慢与偏见》（英文版）是简·奥斯丁的代表作。小说以18世纪末19世纪初保守，闭塞的英国乡村生活为背景。通过几个中产阶级少女对终身大事的处理，表达了这一社会阶层的婚姻恋爱观为了财产和地位而结婚是错误的。但结婚不考虑财产也是愚蠢的。小说的女主人公伊丽莎白出生于平民阶层却为富家子弟达西所心仪。服了当时的门第观念、向伊丽莎白求婚，却遭到拒绝。原来伊丽莎白误信了谗言。最后误会涣然冰释，达西又帮助伊丽莎白的一个私奔的妹妹完婚，挽回家庭的声终于赢得了她的爱情。同时，小说中还描写了伊丽莎白的几个姐妹和女友的婚事以此与主人公理想的婚姻相对照。作品语言清新洗练。风趣机智，情节曲折有致，极富戏剧色彩，是奥斯丁一生创作的六部小说中最受人们喜爱的一部。
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage——tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families——in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground. 
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. ——Alix Wilber ——This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
作者简介
简·奥斯丁(1775-1817年)，英国著名女作家。出生于汉普郡斯蒂文顿，父亲是教区牧师，她没有上过正规学校，在父母指导下阅读了大量文学作品。奥斯丁20岁左右开始写作，一生共发表了6部长篇小说，分别是《理智与情感》、《傲慢与偏见》、《曼斯菲尔德庄园》、《爱玛》、《诺桑觉寺》和《劝导》。她是世界上为数不多的著名女性作家之一，是介于新古典主义和浪漫运动的抒情主义之间的“小幅画家”和“家庭小说家”，文学评论家眼里在不朽性方面勘与莎士比亚相提并论的英国作家。另外，奥斯丁还是第一个通过描绘日常生活中的普通人使小说具有鲜明现代性质的小说家，她的创作开启了19世纪30年代的现实主义小说高潮。  简·奥斯丁[1]      Jane Austen, seventh of the eight children of Reverend George and Cassandra Leigh Austen, was born on December 16, 1775, in the small village of Steventon in Hampshire, England. Her childhood was happy: her home was full of books and many friends and her parents encouraged both their children's intellectual interests and their passion for producing and performing in amateur theatricals. Austen's closest relationship, one that would endure throughout her life, was with her beloved only sister, Cassandra. 
From about the time she was twelve years old, Austen began writing spirited parodies of the popular Gothic and sentimental fiction of the day for the amusement of her family. Chock-full of stock characters, vapid and virtuous heroines, and improbable coincidences, these early works reveal in nascent form many of her literary gifts: particularly her ironic sensibility, wit, and gift for comedy. Attempts at more sustained, serious works began around 1794 with a novel in letters - a popular form at the time - called Lady Susan, and in the years immediately following with two more epistolary novels - one called Elinor and Marianne, the other First Impressions - that would evolve into Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. Lady Susan, later revised and entitled Northanger Abbey, also was begun in that period. 
Her revised version of Elinor and Marianne - Sense and Sensibility - was published, like all the work which appeared in print in her lifetime, anonymously, in 1811. Emma appeared in 1816 and was reviewed favorably by the most popular novelist of the day, Sir Walter Scott. Scott insightfully pointed out Emma's significance in representing the emergence of a new kind of novel, one concerned with the texture of ordinary life. 
Though all her novels were concerned with courtship, love, and marriage, Austen never married. There is some evidence that she had several flirtations with eligible men in her early twenties, and speculation that in 1802 she agreed to marry the heir of a Hampshire family but then changed her mind. Austen rigorously guarded her privacy, and after her death, her family censored and destroyed many of her letters. Little is known of her personal experience or her favorite subjects. However, Austen's reputation as a "dowdy bluestocking," as literary critic Ronald Blythe points out, is far from accurate: "she loved balls, cards, wine, music, country walks, conversation, children, and bad as well as excellent novels." 
In 1816, as she worked to complete her novel Persuasion, Austen's health began to fail. She continued to work, preparing Northanger Abbey for publication, and began a light-hearted, satirical work called Sanditon which she never finished. She died at the age of forty-two on July 18, 1817, in the arms of her beloved sister, Cassandra, of what historians now believe to have been Addison's disease. 
The identity of "A Lady" who wrote the popular novels was known in her lifetime only to her family and a few elite readers, among them the Prince Regent, who invited Austen to visit his library and "permitted" her to dedicate Emma to him (unaware, no doubt, that she loathed him). But Austen deliberately avoided literary circles; in Ronald Blythe's words, "literature, not the literary life, was always her intention." It was not until the December following her death, when Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published, that "a biographical notice of the author" by Austen's brother Henry appeared in the books, revealing to the reading public for the first time the name of Jane Austen.
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He came down in a chaise and faur to see the place
Mr and Mrs Bennet
I hope Mr Bingley will like it
Though I am the youngest, I'm thetallest
When the party entered
He sat close to her for half an hour without once opening his lips
The entreaties of several that she would sing again
A note for Miss Bennet
Many cheerful prognostics of a bad day
They all paint tables, cover screens and net purses
Mrs Bennet, accompanied by her two youngest girls
No, no; stay where you are
The first half hour was spent in piling up tbe fire
He started back, and begging pardon, protested that be never read novels
To examine their own indifferent imitations of china on the mantelpiece
The officers of the ——shire were in general a very creditable,gentlemanlike set
The two ladies were delighted to see their dear friend again
Such very superior dancing is not often seen
To assure you in the most animated language
They entered the breakfast-room
Wickbam and another officer walked back with themto Longbourn So much love and eloquence
Protested he must be entirely mistaken
Wbenever she spoke in a low voice to Mr Collins
Offended two or tbree young ladies
Will you come and see me?
On the stairs were a troop of little boys and girls
Mr Collins and Cbarlotte appeared at tbe door
'Lady Catherine,' said she, 'you bave given me a treasure
He never failed coming to inform them
The gentlemen accompanied him At church
Now and then accompanied by their aunt
She saw on looking up that Colond Fitzwilliam was meeting her
Reading Jane's letters
In vain have I struggled
Meeting him accidentally in town Dawson
They had hitherto forgotten to leave any message for the ladies of Rosings
How nicely we are crammed in?
I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody
When Colonel Millar's regiment went away
She saw hersdf seated beneath a tent, tenderly flirting
Mr and Mrs Gardiner, with their four children
The sound of a carriage drew them to the window
To make herself agreeable to all
I have not an instant to lose
The first pleasing earnest of their welcome
To wbom I bare related tbe affair
They saw the housekeeper coming towards them
But perhaps you would like to read it
The spiteful old ladies in Meryton
With an affectionate smile
文摘
"But consider your daughters. Only think what anestablishment it would be for one of them. Sir William andLady Lucas are determined to go, merely on that account,for in general, you know they visit no new comers. Indeedyou must go, for it will be impossible for us to visit him, ifyou do not. "
"You are over-scrupulous, surely. I dare say Mr. Bingleywill be very glad to see you;and I will send a few lines byyou to assure him of my hearty consent to his marryingwhich ever he chuses of the girls ; though I must throw in agood word for my little Lizzy. "
"I desire you will do no such thing. Lizzy is not a bitbetter than the others;and I am sure she is not haft sohandsome 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 hersisters. "
"Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children insuch way？ You take delight in vexing me. You have nocompassion on my poor nerves. "
"You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect foryour nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard youmention them with consideration these twenty years atleast. "
"Ah！ you do not know what I suffer. "
"But I hope you will get over it, and live to see many.