Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (Paperback, 1960, Dolphin Books, Doubleday & Company Inc.)
Early nineteenth-century English country society, as seen through the clear and amused eyes of Jane Aus- ten, is not very different from society today. Mothers are determined that their daughters should marry well, daughters are determined to do what they wish, and fathers retire to their studies until the confusion is over and it is time to march down the aisle. Foolishness, pomposity, pride, and prejudice, are as rampant today as they were in 1813 when the book first appeared. But because Miss Austen was witty and wise she turned …
Early nineteenth-century English country society, as seen through the clear and amused eyes of Jane Aus- ten, is not very different from society today. Mothers are determined that their daughters should marry well, daughters are determined to do what they wish, and fathers retire to their studies until the confusion is over and it is time to march down the aisle. Foolishness, pomposity, pride, and prejudice, are as rampant today as they were in 1813 when the book first appeared. But because Miss Austen was witty and wise she turned these foibles, comical and dangerous, into material for a work of art and presented, through the little landscape of the English countryside, the larger landscape of human nature.
Paperback, 320 pages
English language
Published Nov. 21, 1960 by Dolphin Books, Doubleday & Company Inc..
Jane Austen sneakily exposes the appalling treatment of women in this cutting and often hilarious satirical examination of the English Patriarchy during the Classic Regency period. One can't help wondering what further mischief, Elizabeth if furnished with extensive wealth and position, would get up to in the future.
A delightful period Novel of immense and understated importance that denounces misogyny through the artifice of satirical romcom.
