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In CirculationLanguage | English |
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ISBN-10 | 8187981369 |
ISBN-13 | 978-8187981367 |
No of pages | 1200 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | India Log |
Published Date | 01 Dec 2003 |
Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist known for Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Though she published her works anonymously, Austen was so successful that she enjoyed personal and professional independence uncommon to women in Georgian middle-class society.
Born into a family of modest means, Austen brought humor, intelligence and a cynical snap to her heroines and her subject matter, which subverted the expectations of the popular and sentimental romances of the era. Her audacious social commentary and sophisticated realism won Austen approval from upper-class opinion makers as well as readers.
But it was Austen’s witty and ironic observations of class and gender divisions that were so distinctive—and today, so influential and universal. With a lasting impact on popular culture, Austen’s canon of work still holds a mirror to each new generation of readers.
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In Sense and Sensibility, Austen makes the readers realize that sensibility, although wanted in all, should be balanced with good sense and judgment. Pride and Prejudice, her undoubted magnum opus, centers around the Bennet family, and the Bennet daughters' search for suitable husbands.
This novel displays that reality should precede appearance, and deliberations precede impulse while forming opinions. Elibeth relying on her impulses and the appearance of Fitzwilliam Darcy forms a negative opinion of him. During the course of time deliberation and reality changes her attitude and both end up getting married.