Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities.

《劝导》内容简介：这是一个曲折多磨的爱情故事。贵族小姐安妮·埃利奥特同青年军官温特沃思倾心相爱，订下了婚约。但是，她的父亲沃尔特爵士和教母拉塞尔夫人嫌温特沃思出身卑贱，极力反对这门婚事。安妮接受了教母的劝导，忍痛与心上人解除了婚约。八年后，在战争中升了官、发了财的温特沃思上校退役返乡，随姐姐、姐夫当上了沃尔特爵士的房客。虽然他对安妮怨愤未消，但两人仍不忘旧情，终于历尽曲折，排除干扰，结成良缘。

目录 十九世纪部分 奥斯丁传略………………………………亨利·奥斯丁 一篇未署名的评论《爱玛》的文章……瓦尔特·司各特 关于简·奥斯丁的书简…………………瓦尔特·司各特 关于奥斯丁[片断]………………………托·巴·麦考莱 关于奥斯丁[片断]………………………乔·亨·刘易斯 简·奥斯丁的小说………………………乔·亨·刘易斯 关于奥斯丁的书简[片断]………………夏洛蒂·勃朗特 现代部分 论奥斯丁 ——“圆形人物与扁形人物”…………爱·摩·福斯特 论奥斯丁 ——“道德家与幽默家”………………安·塞·布拉德雷 简·奥斯丁：答加洛德先生……………R·W·查普曼 有节制德憎恶 ——奥斯丁作品一面观…………………D·W·哈丁 《傲慢与偏见》和简·奥斯丁 早年的读书与写作……………………葵·道·里维斯 漫谈简·奥斯丁…………………………埃德蒙·威尔逊 当代部分 简·奥斯丁………………………………瓦尔特·艾伦 评《理智与感伤》………………………伊安·瓦特 《傲慢与偏见》的世界…………………列奥·基尔什鲍姆 《傲慢与偏见》叙述的透视方法………E·M·哈里代 光彩夺目： 《傲慢与偏见》中的反讽与虚构………卢本·A·勃洛厄尔 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》……………………利奥纳尔·特立林 简·奥斯丁：《爱玛》…………………阿诺德·凯特尔 《爱玛》…………………………………马克·肖勒 《诺桑觉修道院》中的 批判现实主义…………………………阿伦·德·麦基洛普 简·奥斯丁作品中的素描人物 和漫画人物……………………………D·W·哈丁 简·奥斯丁和妇女地位问题……………大卫·莫那翰 奥斯丁谈创作 书简选 论小说艺术——《诺桑觉修道院》[片断]

Sense And Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park Emma Northanger Abbey Persuasion

简·奥斯汀，（Jane Austen，1775～1817） 英国女小说家。被誉为“地位可与莎士比亚平起平坐的作家”。所著的六部（《理智与情感》、《傲慢与偏见》、《曼斯菲尔德庄园》、《爱玛》、《诺桑觉寺》、《劝导》）小说，经过近两百年的检验，受到一代代读者的交口称赞，部部堪称上乘之作。她的作品如“两寸牙雕”，从一个小窗口中窥视到整个社会形态和人情、世故，在英国小说的发展史上有承上启下的意义。 《思想者丛书》是一套有着深邃的科学与人文思想的丛书。丛书中既有伟大人物的介绍，也有对经典著作的解读。涉及杰出哲学家、科学家、艺术家及文学家的生平事迹，他们的时代背景、重大成就，特别是他们的思想（作品）的形成和发展过程，以及他们对其所处时代与人类文明进程的影响。 本书为该系列丛书之一，主要介绍了简·奥斯汀生活的时代背景、主要思想，相关重大事件及其对人类文明进程的影响；介绍了简·奥斯汀的代表作，以及该作品的创作缘由及其影响；以审慎生动的方式来研习该作品的言论；解释关键术语及概念；援引简洁易懂的实例；提供深入探讨的问题。 读者在阅读过程中可以了解他的奋斗阅历、成功经验、切身体会以及对事业、对人生的执著追求，因而可以得到更多的启发，吸取更多的科学精神和人文精神的养料。对青年读者来说，会起到励志的作用，使得今后在自己的成长过程中，会时时感到这些潜移默化的影响；而对中老年读者来说，也可以对比自己的事业和人生经历，获得新的感悟。

《简·奥斯汀的绝妙睿语》节选了她针对人性、金钱、婚姻、人生和社会所发表的最尖锐、最深刻、也最有趣的评论。这些语句有的选自她的小说，有的摘自她妙语连珠的信函。这些语句易于浏览，适于引用。相信这本：书的出版不但会使所有的奥斯汀迷欢呼雀跃，也，使那些对她不太熟悉的读者受益匪浅。 简·奥斯汀除了和家族成员保持联系之外，基本与世隔绝，而对所谓的伦敦文学圈更是闻所未闻。可是，她的小说却赢得了圈中文学家的赞誉，著名作家沃尔特．司格特爵士就曾说过：“她在描述日常生活中的琐事、情感和人物方面非常有天赋。” 直到如今，人们仍然一如既往地：喜爱简·奥斯汀的小说，喜爱其中对社会的尖锐评论（往往都带着谐谑的口吻），带有讽刺意味的智慧，喜爱作者的才华横溢，欣赏她喜剧性现实主义的表现手法，以及对人性的绝妙把握。简·奥斯汀的小说一贯强调人类的社会共性，如：浪漫天真，自我幻想，容易上当，贪婪，势利，粗鲁，傲慢，阿谀奉承等等。此外，她的小说还把焦点对准了那些一心想嫁人豪门的女人们，她们丑态百出，想尽一切办法将那些“不太符合标准的”赶出局外。

In a marvellous, thrilling re-creation of the world of Pride and Prejudice, P.D. James fuses her lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen with her own great talent for writing crime fiction. The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome, healthy sons in the Pemberley nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live within seventeen miles, the ordered and secure life of Pemberley seems unassailable, and Elizabeth's happiness in her marriage is complete. But their peace is threatened and old sins and misunderstandings are rekindled on the eve of the annual autumn ball. The Darcys and their guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland, and as it pulls up, Lydia Wickham, an uninvited guest, tumbles out, screaming that her husband has been murdered. Death Comes to Pemberley is a powerful work of fiction, as rich in its compelling story, in its evocation of place, and its gripping psychological and emotional insight, as the very best of P. D. James. She brings us back masterfully and with delight to much-loved characters, illuminating the happy but threatened marriage of the Darcys with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly crafted mystery.

An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature. In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings. Progressing from his days as an immature student to a happily married man, Deresiewicz's A Jane Austen Education is the story of one man's discovery of the world outside himself. A self-styled intellectual rebel dedicated to writers such as James Joyce and Joseph Conrad, Deresiewicz never thought Austen's novels would have anything to offer him. But when he was assigned to read Emma as a graduate student at Columbia, something extraordinary happened. Austen's devotion to the everyday, and her belief in the value of ordinary lives, ignited something in Deresiewicz. He began viewing the world through Austen's eyes and treating those around him as generously as Austen treated her characters. Along the way, Deresiewicz was amazed to discover that the people in his life developed the depth and richness of literary characters-that his own life had suddenly acquired all the fascination of a novel. His real education had finally begun. Weaving his own story-and Austen's-around the ones her novels tell, Deresiewicz shows how her books are both about education and themselves an education. Her heroines learn about friendship and feeling, staying young and being good, and, of course, love. As they grow up, they learn lessons that are imparted to Austen's reader, who learns and grows by their sides. A Jane Austen Education is a testament to the transformative power of literature, a celebration of Austen's mastery, and a joy to read. Whether for a newcomer to Austen or a lifelong devotee, Deresiewicz brings fresh insights to the novelist and her beloved works. Ultimately, Austen's world becomes indelibly entwined with our own, showing the relevance of her message and the triumph of her vision.

'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' With this famous declaration Jane Austen launches into the story of the five Bennet sisters. It is a story that on first reading is full of suspense, surprise and, ultimately, satisfaction, and which on re-reading commands, in addition, admiration for the author's supreme skill in managing a deceptively complex plot to its triumphant conclusion. First published in 1813, and Austen's most popular novel in her own lifetime, Pride and Prejudice has since been widely recognised as one of the finest novels in the English language. The volume provides comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, a chronology of Austen's life, and an authoritative textual apparatus. This edition is an indispensable resource for all scholars and readers of Austen.

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended, and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is edited by Richard Bain, Vice Principal, Norham Community Technology College, North Shields. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

In Mansfield Park, first published in 1814, when the author had reached her full maturity as a novelist, Jane Austen paints some of most witty and perceptive studies of character. Against a genteel country landscape of formal parks and stately homes, the gossipy Mrs Norris becomes a masterful comic creation; the fickle young suitor Henry Crawford provides an unequaled portrait of an unscruplous young man; and the complexy drawn Fanny Price emerges as one of Jane Austen's finest achievements--the poor cousin who comes to stay with her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park and learns how the game of love can too easily turn to folly. More intricately plotted and wider in scope than Austen's earlier works, Mansfield Park continues to enchant and delight us as a superb example of a great author's craft.

Jon Spence's fascinating biography of Jane Austen paints an intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist. Spence's meticulous research has, perhaps most notably, uncovered evidence that Austen and the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy fell in love at the age of twenty and that the relationship inspired Pride and Prejudice, one of the most celebrated works of fiction ever written. Becoming Jane Austen gives the fullest account we have of the romance, which was more serious and more enduring than previously believed. Seeing this love story in the context of Jane Austen's whole life enables us to appreciate the profound effect the relationship had on her art and on subsequent choices that she made in her life. Full of insight and with an attentive eye for detail, Spence explores Jane Austen's emotional attachments and the personal influences that shaped her as a novelist. His elegant narrative provides a point of entry into Jane Austen's world as she herself perceived and experienced it. It is a world familiar to us from her novels, but in Becoming Jane Austen, Austen herself is the heroine.

At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, "Persuasion" is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself, while attempting to push her daughter into a dismal match. A magnificently crafted novel of Regency manners and mores that will delight Austen enthusiasts with its wit and elegant expression.

Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen's writing powers and published in 1814, "Mansfield Park" marks a conscious break from the tone of her first three novels, "Northanger Abbey", "Sense and Sensibility", and "Pride and Prejudice", the last of which Austen came to see as 'rather too light.' Fanny Price is unlike any of Austen's previous heroines, a girl from a poor family brought up in a splendid country house and possessed of a vast reserve of moral fortitude and imperturbability. She is very different from Elizabeth Bennet, but is the product of the same inspired imagination.

《彭伯里庄园》是埃玛・坦南特为英国著名女作家简・奥斯汀（1775――1817）的代表作《傲慢与偏见）所作的续集，在英国近几年来的名著续集出版热中，属佼佼者，仅在英国国内发行量已超过5万册。 本续集从人物性格、语言到情节发展等各方面都忠实于原作，连主题也是紧紧围绕着“傲慢与偏见”展开，但故事叙述完整精巧，可独立成书。因此，喜欢原作的读者读来会亲切如晤老友，而不熟悉原作者亦不会有突兀感，甚至还可藉此领略到原著的一些神韵。 伊丽莎白和达西结婚一年来，幸福和美，唯一的遗憾是伊丽莎白一直没有怀孕。照彭伯里的老规矩，如果达西无子嗣，庄园就得传给远亲罗珀少爷。 圣诞将临，伊丽莎白请寡居的母亲、两个待嫁的妹妹和姐姐简一家来彭伯里过节。达西则请来冷傲的姨母和曾与之订婚的表妹，姨母还带着喜欢卖弄学问、动辄以主人自居的罗珀少爷。达西的妹妹乔治娅娜未经庄园女主人允许，向曾追求过达西、对伊丽莎白满怀醋意的宾格利小姐发出了邀请。另外，达西为讨妻子欢心，主动派车将住在附近的伊丽莎白的舅父舅母和她妹妹莉迪娅一家五口接来游园，而不计妻妹夫威克姆曾诱拐自己亲妹妹，后又几乎骗得伊丽莎白的感情。更热闹的是，贝内特太太的追求者、冒充上校的基奇纳也瘸着腿前来造访。关系错综复杂的这一大帮人又因大雪封路全被窝在了彭伯里，一住就是好几天。几天里，矛盾丛生，波澜迭起。 这期间，伊丽莎白连听说带猜测，认定达西在村里有个孩子，是他和已死去的法国情人所生，心生怨怒。达西否认不成，反被妻子言语所伤，加上贝内特太太及其追求者等人言行粗鄙局鲁，达西傲然而去。伊丽莎白深思之后，决定远离庄园去做教师。 经过一番周折，达西夫妇消除了误解，和好如初，而且伊丽莎白也欣喜地发现自己已身怀有孕。彭伯里庄园重旧平静。

In 1811, Jane Austen's first published work, Sense and Sensibility, marked the debut of England's premier noverlist of manners. Believing that "3 or 4 families in a country village is the very thing to work on," she created a brillant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly. Romantic walks through lush Devonshire and genteel dinner parties at a stately manor draw two pretty sisters into the schems and manipulations of landed gentry determined to marry wisely and well. Neither sense nor sensibility can guarantee happiness for either--as romantic Marianne falls prey to a dangerous rascal, and reasonable Elinor loses her heart to a gentleman already engaged. Wonderfully entertaining yet subtle and probing in its characterizations, Sense and Sensibility richly displays the supreme artistry of a great English novelist.

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships,gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.