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Although only a modest success during Austen's lifetime, Pride and Prejudice has long appeared near the top of lists of "most-loved books" among literary scholars and the reading public.
Pride and Prejudice = the most famous of Jane Austen's novels (1813)
- Pride and Prejudice begins with the famous lines: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession 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 minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters."
- But Bishop Strachan has hired a new woman in the English Department; I could tell when she was interviewing, last spring, that she was someone to be endured—a woman who gives new meaning to that arresting first sentence of Pride and Prejudice, with which the fall term begins for my Grade 9 girls: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."† (source)
- Jimmy himself had put together a naked Pride and Prejudice and a naked To the Lighthouse, just for laughs, and in sophomore VizArts at HelthWyzer he'd done Theltese Falcon, with costumes by Kate Greenaway and depth-and-shadow styling by Rembrandt.† (source)
- She is reading a well-thumbed paperback copy of Pride and Prejudice while the other children, Gogol included, watch The Love Boat and Fantasy Island, piled together on top and around the sides of his parents' bed.† (source)
- I see him in my living room suffering though Pride and Prejudice with me.† (source)
- My favorites were Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.† (source)
- Kathy made lunches while the three girls sat at the kitchen table, eating and reciting, in English accents, scenes from Pride and Prejudice.† (source)
- Pride and Prejudice stalked in tandem the beautiful hills.† (source)
- Eyeing the bookshelf crammed with James Patterson,V. C. Andrews, and romance novels, I finally found an old paperback copy of Pride and Prejudice and retired to my bunk—on top of the covers, of course.† (source)
- So I added a few more photos, a few more descriptions, and answered all the questions about my interests (hockey), favorite movie (Pride and Prejudice—Sloane had made me watch it, and I hated every minute, but I knew girls went for that stuff), and heroes (my dad, of course—it sounded sensitive).† (source)
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- I want him to be like Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (although, having said that, I've seen him in other things like Fever Pitch and he's not so sexy out of frilly shirts and tights).† (source)
- Or maybe trotting along in Hyde Park, ridden by a girl in one of those lovely Pride and Prejudice dresses.† (source)
- Miss Austen's Pride and Prejudice is wounded but still intact.† (source)
- Madeline: Pride and Prejudice—the BBC version, toast, hands, architecture.† (source)
- After dinner the girls asked if they could watch Pride and Prejudice again.† (source)
- Felicity has taken over my bed and helped herself to Pride and Prejudice.† (source)
- I place them all neatly on the shelf, spines out, except for Pride and Prejudice, for I have need of the comfort of an old friend.† (source)
- "I've brought Pride and Prejudice.† (source)
- To Jane Austen there was something discreditable in writing PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.† (source)
- They wrote novels, however; one may even go further, I said, taking PRIDE AND PREJUDICE from the shelf, and say that they wrote good novels.† (source)
- And, I wondered, would PRIDE AND PREJUDICE have been a better novel if Jane Austen had not thought it necessary to hide her manuscript from visitors?† (source)
- Without boasting or giving pain to the opposite sex, one may say that PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is a good book.† (source)
- At any rate, one would not have been ashamed to have been caught in the act of writing PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.† (source)
- But I doubt whether that was true of Charlotte Brontë, I said, opening JANE EYRE and laying it beside PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.† (source)
- One might say, I continued, laying the book down beside PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, that the woman who wrote those pages had more genius in her than Jane Austen; but if one reads them over and marks that jerk in them, that indignation, one sees that she will never get her genius expressed whole and entire.† (source)
- For if PRIDE AND PREJUDICE matters, and MIDDLEMARCH and VILLETTE and WUTHERING HEIGHTS matter, then it matters far more than I can prove in an hour's discourse that women generally, and not merely the lonely aristocrat shut up in her country house among her folios and her flatterers, took to writing.† (source)
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.† (source)
- Wherefore, laying aside all national pride and prejudice in favour of modes and forms, the plain truth is, that IT IS WHOLLY OWING TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE, AND NOT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE GOVERNMENT, that the crown is not as oppressive in England as in Turkey.† (source)
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