Pride and Prejudice
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Descripción editorial
An Apple Books Classic edition.
Jane Austen’s beloved classic opens with this witty and very memorable line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” With all the twists and turns of a soap opera, Pride and Prejudice chronicles the drama that ensues when the wealthy bachelor Mr. Darcy moves close to the Bennet family home in the English countryside. The news of his arrival sends the socially ambitious Mrs. Bennet-whose main concern is finding suitable matches for her five daughters-into overdrive.
The book’s main character, the high-spirited Elizabeth Bennet, is a strikingly modern heroine: a woman who refuses to lower her expectations or transform herself to suit society’s norms. Austen’s novel achieves a remarkable balance, serving up barbed criticism of the obsession with money, status, and matrimony even as it draws us into a swoon-worthy love story. At its heart, Pride and Prejudice is a romantic comedy, and a darned great one at that. It’s so much fun to turn the pages and wonder about Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy: Will they or won’t they overcome their excessive pride and initial prejudices to make a happily-ever-after connection?
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This book is the best I could've ever read, the story within it is thrilling and it's totally worth all the praise of the world! A book worth spending time with.
Classic English literature is my cup of tea! ☕️
I truly found Jane Austen’s “Pride and prejudice” to be quite dense in terms of plot development. There is not much happening until the very end of the novel when the events wrap up in a quite obvious manner.
“Pride and prejudice” is an excellent depiction of the English society at the beginning of the nineteenth century, where marriages and love matchings were vital to secure status, power, and income. Being involved in such a particular environment is what kept me engaged. Plus, Austen’s writing style is simply impeccable.
Pride and prejudice
Posiblemente el mas maravillo libro escrito sobre unos personajes que cuando son conscientes de sus errores y debilidades, se permiten ver sus propios sentimientos, con otros ojos admitiendo incluso, que son capaces de amarse y complementarse, superando un enfrentamiento que ellos mismos propician con su orgullo y sus prejuicios.
La ironía que la escritora es capaz de desarrollar en numerosos pasajes, teniendo en cuenta los formalismos de la sociedad británica en la que se desarrolla la historia, ponen de manifiesto la sagacidad y buen hacer de una mujer, a la que en principio se le presupone una limitada formación y escasa libertad para expresar sus ideas o sentimientos sobre las relaciones sociales y personales de la sociedad en la que ella vivió.
Cada uno de los personajes de la historia pueden muy bien definir los diferentes estereotipos que tenían lugar en la sociedad inglesa del siglo XVIII. Jane Austen, finalmente, hace resaltar los verdaderos sentimientos y el amor entre dos jóvenes, por encima, de los formalismos, la fortuna o la posición social, aspectos primordiales que marcaban las posibles relaciones entre un hombre y una mujer.