pride and prejudice英美文学讲解.pptVIP

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane?Austen?(1775-1817)? English writer, who first gave the novel its modern character through the treatment of everyday life. Although Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. The most urgent preoccupation of her bright, young heroines is courtship and finally marriage. Austen herself never married. Her best-known books include PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1813) and EMMA (1816). Virginia Woolf called Austen the most perfect artist among w