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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in posses-sion of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the
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Feb 27, 2024 · Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen (New York, 1918), in 424 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. Attached to the document is a multilingual HTML version. Wikipedia has an entry on Jane Austen and on this work, Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, which is one of the most popular novels in English literature.
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- CONTENTS
- GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
General Editor’s preface ix Acknowledgements xiii Chronology xv Introduction xxii Note on the text lxxix
Jane Austen wrote to be read and reread. ‘[A]n artist cannot do anything slovenly,’ she remarked to her sister Cassandra. Her subtle, crafted novels repay close and repeated attention to vocabulary, syntax and punctuation as much as to irony and allusion; yet the reader can take immediate and intense delight in their plots and characters. As a resu...
Theextenttowhichthisvolumeisindebtedtopreviousscholarswill be obvious to all students of Jane Austen. On biographic matters it relies heavily on the work of Deirdre Le Faye, while in areas such as the critical reception it draws on the writings of Brian Southam. Much of the bibliographical information derives from the studies of David Gilson. I rec...
Nobody apart from the author herself can ever have found Pride and Prejudice ‘rather too light, & bright, & sparkling’, as she wrote in a letter to her sister, but it is certainly all three of these things. Its lightness comes from its high-spirited invention and its masterfully contrived comic plot. Its brightness appears above all in its control ...
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She learns from Fitzwilliams Darcy’s role in separating Bingley and Jane. Darcy catches Elizabeth off guard with his proposal of marriage, an offer she turns down cold. Darcy later approaches her and gives her a letter explaining his behavior toward Wickham, Jane, and Bingley.
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In such a world a change of mind - an act by which consciousness demonstrates some independence from the patterns of thought which have predetermined its readings of things - can indeed come to seem a fairly momentous event, an internal modification matched in this novel by an external modification in an individual's behaviour.
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Jul 6, 2020 · We set out to evaluate the content of peer reviews systematically and objectively, examining factors that influence the language of peer review reports. We took a data-driven approach to identify different types of scientific reviewers in the biomedical domain.
Jul 6, 2020 · Methods: We evaluated the harshness, constructiveness and positiveness in 596 reviews from journals with open peer review, plus 46 reviews from colleagues’ anonymously reviewed manuscripts.
