Elizabeth Bennet lives in a house of five daughters, an anxious mother and a sardonic father. Her family's modest income and entailed property make marriage a matter of survival, but Elizabeth wants respect as well. At the Meryton ball she overhears Mr. Darcy judge her only tolerable, and from that moment she misreads him, helped by Wickham's smooth stories. Darcy's proposal at Hunsford, her visit to Pemberley and her younger sister Lydia's scandal rearrange her opinions.
If you want a comedy of manners that has outlasted two centuries, start here. What you take away is a precise study of vanity and self-deception, delivered with Austen's dry humor.
Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Story Seeker. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Aufbau
- ISBN
- 9783746651064
- Language
- DE
Quotes by Jane Austen
More →It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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