Pride and Prejudice
- Auteur: Jane Austen (Engeland)
- Engelse roman uit 1813
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin
- Omvang: 336 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Nederlandse vertaling: Trots en vooroordeel
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice recensie, review en informatie
- “The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste.” (Virginia Woolf)
Flaptekst van de Engelse roman uit 1813 van Jane Austen
“No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes …”
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.
Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire on 16 December 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family’s amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died on 18 July 1817 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, only 41 years of age.