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"It is often a truth universally acknowledged, a single man in possession of a good fortune, has to be in want of a wife."
Next on the exhortation on the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among essentially the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to cover the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals using a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights over a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and also the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, an individual man of proper fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, that is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an chance to marry off at the very least considered one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed with the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity as well as the untoward behavior from the three younger daughters, he could be not able to understand the true worth with the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who's greater than willing to believe the worst that other folks have to state of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed inside the village, does indeed use a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.

Having set inside the central misunderstanding from the novel, Austen then brings in her own cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles to be with her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; along with the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy arises from mixing and matching these representatives of various 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 people that deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that they loses sight with the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls including the Bennets are hard to come by, and also Lizzy, who concerns sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first begun to love him: "It may be developing so gradually, that we hardly know if this began. However believe I've got to date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She could possibly be joking, there is however a lot more than somewhat truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as always appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice could be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber
Austen may be the hot property from the entertainment world with new feature film versions of Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility on the silver screen and Pride and Prejudice hitting the tv screen airwaves on PBS. Such high visibility will inevitably draw renewed interest in the original source materials. These new Modern Library editions offer quality hardcovers at affordable prices.
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