![]() ![]() Bennet hears that Netherfield, a nearby country estate, has been rented by the young, wealthy, and single Mr. You could not shock her more than she shocks me īeside her Joyce seems innocent as grass. In his “Letter to Lord Byron” (1936), he wrote of Jane Austen: Bennet’s opening words at the start of Pride and Prejudice. The 20th-century British poet, playwright, and critic, Wystan Hugh Auden (1907–1973) summed up the qualities, pithily and brilliantly encapsulated in Mrs. Her observations reflect the key concern of Pride and Prejudice: the crucial importance of money and property in influencing human activity and relationships. Her self-appointed task in life is to make sure that each of her five daughters secures a suitable that is, a financially sound, preferably very rich husband. ![]() Bennet, hardly noted in the rest of the novel for her wisdom or diplomacy. But they express precisely the sentiments of the anxious and fussy Mrs. These words at the start of the novel are those of the author, who is a subtle commentator throughout the story. At the heart of the novel lies irony-what appears to be so may indeed not be so. So begins Jane Austen’s arguably most enduringly successful novel-one that has been translated into at least 35 languages. ![]() “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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