Pride and Prejudice
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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Publisher
Independently Published
Pages
286
Language
English
Published
1813

Overview

Pride and Prejudice invites readers into a social world where a visit, a dance, or a remark at dinner can carry the force of public evidence. Elizabeth Bennet meets Fitzwilliam Darcy within that dense network of family expectation and neighborhood opinion. His reserve appears arrogant; her quick judgment feels justified. Jane Austen makes their mutual resistance entertaining through sharp dialogue, but she also lets every exchange test how confidently people can read one another.

The novel's romance develops alongside the practical realities of marriage, money, and status. The Bennet household has several daughters and limited security, so Mrs. Bennet's urgency is comic without being entirely irrational. Elizabeth's intelligence gives her room to resist a merely advantageous match, yet intelligence does not make her immune to partial information or wounded pride. Darcy, too, must confront the difference between private feeling and conduct shaped by rank.

Austen's control of tone makes the reading experience unusually light on its feet. Irony reveals vanity and self-deception without flattening characters into targets, while conversation allows attraction and disagreement to occupy the same scene. The pleasure lies not only in wondering how relationships will change, but in watching judgment itself become more exact. Pride and Prejudice is a romance animated by wit and a comedy of manners with serious attention to freedom, responsibility, and the difficult art of seeing clearly.

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4 posts from the Bookspace community

Firuze Akça@firuzemsii· 8mo🇹🇷

"Tanıdığım insan sayısı arttıkça, hoşnutsuzluğum da bir o kadar artıyor."

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aycan@opheliaaa· 6mo🇹🇷

keşke aşk jane austen romanlarındaki gibi bir şey olsaydı.

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Meryem Yazgan@meryemiss· 4mo🇹🇷

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” “Gerçekten sevdiğim insan sayısı çok az, iyi düşündüğüm insan sayısı ise daha da az. Dünyayı ne kadar çok görürsem, o kadar çok tatminsizleşiyorum; ve her geçen gün, tüm insan karakterlerinin tutarsızlığına ve erdem veya akıl görünümüne ne kadar az güvenilebileceğine dair inancımı doğruluyor.”

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Bookspace· 7mo🇹🇷

Boşuna direndim. Kendimle ne kadar mücadele ettiysem de sonuç değişmedi; duygularımı bastırmam artık mümkün değil. Size olan hayranlığımı ve sevgimi dile getirmeme izin vermelisiniz. Uzun zamandır bunu söylememek için kendimi zorladım; çünkü biliyordum ki bu itiraf—hem sizin durumunuzu hem benim huzurumu kökten değiştirecekti. Ama ne kadar kaçarsam kaçayım, kalbim beni hep size getiriyor.

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