![]() The language and dialogues among the characters are so dramatic and eloquent. The author clearly has a word for everything and is very poetic at times when describing emotions of the characters. So many new words entered my limited vocabulary after the first few chapters that it was impossible to not notice how frequently I needed the dictionary. But having read too few books since I was a child, I resolved towards the end of 2017 to read at least 12 books a year thereafter and ensure that at least one of them were a classic. I haven't read many books and this one wasn't the type that I would have preferred. The book being published in 1813 is a bit difficult to read for anyone starting on classics but I would urge the reader to give the book some time and it would be worth it. Darcy had to be my first fictional crush, an epitome of the strong and silent men. Elizabeth Bennet is no doormat, she will not marry for comfort and monetary gains but for love. The characters are written in a very realistic manner, Our heroine is flawed, prejudiced but strong. This book made a big impact on me when I first read it, it deals with marriage for love vs money, class differences, self evolution of both the male and female protagonist. Bingley comes in their neighbourhood with his sisters and a friend Mr. She finds her prayers answered when a young bachelor, a Mr. Bennet whose only goal in life is to get her daughters married. Bennet is the father of five daughters living on a modest income, he is married to Mrs. Now years later, I bought this beautiful vintage classics edition and read it for the upteenth time. ![]() "Love at first line" is how I would describe it, and so began my love for classics. Pride and Prejudice is a masterpiece I first read when I was 15, It was a battered copy I had picked up from a second hand shop. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” The iconic opening line that got me hooked. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma(1816). Her works were only published after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. Jane Austen was born on Decemat Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish.
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