Showing posts with label English literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English literature. Show all posts
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice - now a Writers' Club classic fiction
Practical Common Sense might be missing, except in her humor-filled books.
About this book:
Pride and
Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The
story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with
issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in
the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England.
Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman
living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near
London.
Though the
story is set at the turn of the 19th century, it retains a
fascination for modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of
"most loved books" such as The Big Read. It has become one
of the most popular novels in English literature and receives
considerable attention from literary scholars.
The novel
centers on Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the five daughters of a
country gentleman. Mr Bennet is a bookish man, and somewhat
neglectful of his responsibilities. Mrs Bennet is a woman lacking in
social graces and primarily concerned with finding suitable husbands
for her five daughters. Jane Bennet, the eldest daughter, is
distinguished by the kindness of her attitudes; Elizabeth Bennet, the
second daughter, shares her father's keen wit and occasionally
sarcastic outlook; Mary is studious, devout and aspires to be
musical; Kitty, the fourth sister follows where her younger sister
leads, while Lydia is flirtatious and unrestrained.
The
narrative opens with news in the Bennet family that Mr Bingley, a
wealthy, charismatic and social young bachelor, is moving into
Netherfield Park in the neighbourhood. Mr Bingley is soon well
received, while his friend Mr Darcy makes a less favorable first
impression by appearing proud and condescending at a ball that they
attend (he detests dancing and is not much for light conversation).
Mr Bingley singles out Jane for particular attention, and it soon
becomes apparent that they have formed an attachment to each other,
though Jane does not alter her conduct for him, confessing her great
happiness only to Lizzie. By contrast, Darcy slights Elizabeth, who
overhears and jokes about it despite feeling a budding resentment.
(source:
Wikipedia)
About the author:
Jane Austen
(16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose
works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a
place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.
Her realism, biting irony and social commentary have gained her
historical importance among scholars and critics.
Austen's
works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the
18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism.
Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of
women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security.
Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive
reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her
nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public,
and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a
great English writer.
(source:
Wikipedia)
About the Midwest Journal Writers' Club:
This was created by popular request to enable any beginning or established author to improve their skills by studying quality editions of classic bestselling fiction. Join at http://midwestjournalpress.com
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Jane Austen's Persuasion - another classic fiction bestseller
The discussion of classic novels continues with Jane Austen's "missing" punctuation.
About this book:
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel.
She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in
August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in
December that year (but dated 1818).
Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only
by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume
and published together, but also because both stories are set partly
in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen was well acquainted,
having lived there from 1801 to 1805.
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne
Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted
a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer
Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but
poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir
Walter, Anne's fatuous, snobbish father and her equally self-involved
older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining
that he was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family
estate. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of
Anne's late mother, persuaded her to break the engagement.
Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her
former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out
a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth is now a captain and wealthy from
maritime victories in the Napoleonic wars. However, he has not
forgiven Anne for rejecting him. While publicly declaring that he is
ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he
privately resolves that he is ready to become attached to any
appealing young woman except for Anne Elliot.
(source: Wikipedia)
(source: Wikipedia)
About the author:
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817)
was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among
the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read
writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social
commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and
critics.
Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility
of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition
to 19th-century realism. Her plots, though fundamentally comic,
highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social
standing and economic security. Her work brought her little personal
fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the
publication in 1869 of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen
introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become
widely accepted in academia as a great English writer.
(source: Wikipedia)
(source: Wikipedia)
About the Midwest Journal Writers' Club:
This was
created by popular request to enable any beginning or established
author to improve their skills by studying quality editions of
classic bestselling fiction. Join at http://midwestjournalpress.com
Related Sites
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Sold! On the Block: Brock's Illustrations for 'Persuasion' | Jane ... - A series of fine ink and watercolour drawings for Jane Austen's Persuasion, 1909. 14 pen and ink and watercolour drawings including one for the title-page (most c.280 x 180mm) on paper (390 x 270mm), and later mounted ...
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