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Pride and Prejudice [Bok / Inbunden]

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet live with their five daughters. Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich bachelor who moves into a house nearby with his two sisters and friend, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the second daughter, Elizabeth, but she finds him arrogant and self-centered. When Darcy proposes to Elizabeth, she refuses. But perhaps there is more to Darcy than meets the eye.

<b>»Bredvid Jane Austen är James Joyce oskuldsfull som gräs.« | W.H. AUDEN<br/><br/>»Jane Austens romaner har den permanenta kvaliteten hos riktig litteratur.« | VIRGINIA WOOLF<br/><br/>»Jane Austens blick för sin egen samtids ­spelregler får oss att se våra.« | JESPER HÖGSTRÖM, EXPRESSEN </b><br/><br/>Kärleken mellan dem är en kamp. Fitzwilliam Darcy har sin stolthet, Elizabeth Bennet sin krassa blick på världen. Lika tydlig som Jane Austens viktorianska roman är i skildringen av kärleksrelationer som maktmedel, lika mångbottnade och föränderliga är hennes karaktärer; lika levande miljöerna och landskapet.<br/>Inte för intet är <i>Stolthet och fördom</i> en av historiens mest lästa och omtalade romaner. I översättning av Gösta Olzon.<br/><br/>JANE AUSTEN [1775 1817] var en engelsk författare, vars kärleksromaner hör till de största klassikerna i den engelskspråkiga litte­ra­­­turen. Romanerna utspelar sig inom en engelsk aristokrati, ofta skildrad med skarp ironi. Konventioner och koder utgör hinder för att finna lycka, inte minst för kvinnor.

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.

Pride And Prejudice [Bok / Inbunden]

The love between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy is a struggle. He has his pride, while she has a pragmatic view of the world. When they come together their most stubborn sides are bound to clash, but by challenging each other they also build a remarkable relationship. <br/>Jane Austen's Victorian novel depicts romantic relationships as a means of power, with multifaceted and changeable characters, and with environments and landscapes which are equally vividly drawn. Not for nothing is <i>P</i><i>ride & Prejudice</i> one of the most read and talked-about novels in world literature.<br/><br/>JANE AUSTEN [1775-1817] was an English author. Her novels are set in the English nobility, which is often portrayed with sharp irony. Social rules and codes are depicted as barriers to finding happiness, especially for women. Jane Austen is one of the most beloved authors of all time, whose works are constantly being adapted for film, television and the stage.

<b>"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"</b><br/><br/>Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.