Pride and Prejudice
Austen is education,typical for a woman of her standing at the time,consisted of a few brief stints in establishments for young ladies and the accomplishments she could acquire at home.She proudly describes her family at a "novel-reading family." In her own novels,she deals with the everyday concrns of members of provincial middle-class English society—a society she knew well.Her intimate yet lightly satirical tone unveils the truth behind the many pretenses required by th times.Sir Walter Scott described Austen as having "the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting,from the truth of the descriptionb and the sentiments," and modern critics credit her detailed,intimate work with giving the novel its modern form.
这就是傲慢与偏见的中央编译出版社的英文简介.
Pride and prejudice are displayed in every character pertaining to the novel in some form or another.It is pride of those of a higher economic status which genuinely withholds prominent relationships of those who are of lower economic status.Darcy's pride causes him to look down on those who are in a lower social class,due to his mentality that he supersedes those who are not within his social circle.Given that Elizabeth Bennet is of a lower class than Darcy,this places immediate restrictions to their relationship.Elizabeth also displays significant pride.Though not influenced by economic status,Elizabeth is most proud of her ability of perception:although it is her ill perception which causes her to misjudge Darcy and also Wickham.When Elizabeth hears of Wickham's accusations of Darcy,she trusts the negative perception of him,and mistakenly views Darcy's confidence as conceit.
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老人与海
内容简介
The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works.Told in language of great simplicity and power,it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman,down on his luck,and his supreme ordeal——a relentless,agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.Here Hemingway recasts,in strikingly contemporary style,the classic thene of courage in the face of defeat,of personal triumph won from los.Written in 1952,this hugely successfully novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a huge part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature
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鲁滨逊漂流记
This is a novel by the English author Daniel Defoe,published in 1719.It is one of the most popular adventure novels in all literature.It is the story of Bobinson Crusoe,an Englishman who is shipwrecked in a lonely tropical island.He builds himself a hut,grows his own food,and becomes self-sufficient.After 23 years he meets with a group of cannibals and rescues one of their prisoners,a young native whome he calls Friday.Crusoe and his“man”Friday become close friends,and when they are finally rescued four years later,both return to England.This novel is famous for its lovely details and its expression of belief in man's ability when left alone in nature.
