书名：Pride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1060
作者：Jane Austen简·奥斯汀
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2002
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141439518
商品尺寸：12.7 x 2 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：400

Pride and Prejudice《傲慢与偏见》，英国女作家简·奥斯汀的代表作，是其21岁时写成的小说，原名First Impressions《最初的印象》，经过改写后换名为《傲慢与偏见》，并于自1813年出版。至今200余年来，仍畅销不衰，多次被改编成电影和电视剧，深受不同时代的读者喜爱。小说的开头“有钱的单身汉总要娶位太太，这是一条举世公认的真理。”这句话也被认为是文学史上有名的小说开头之一。本书适合有一定英文基础的英国文学爱好者或英语学习者阅读。
推荐理由：
1.《傲慢与偏见》是全世界伟大的爱情小说之一，反映了女性对人格独立和平等权利的追求，值得一读；
2.写作手法巧妙，文笔辛辣而滑稽，极富喜剧色彩，描写细腻，语言优美；
3.英式英语原汁原味，名言佳句较多，对写作有较大帮助，是英语学习者必读书籍之一；
4.本版本由利兹大学教授Vivien Jones作序，并针对书中已产生词义转化的早期现代英语特别添加了词汇注释，如chaise and four等，有助于读者准确理解原文。
With its “light and bright and sparkling” dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine,Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most perennially popular novel. The love story of ElizabethBennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, who misjudge, then challenge and change each other, is also a novel about the search for happiness and self-knowledge in a world of strict social rules, where a woman must marry well to survive.
This edition ofPride and Prejudice is based on the first-edition text of 1813, as originally published.
Edited with an introduction and notes byVIVIEN JONES,University of Leeds

伊丽莎白出身于小地主家庭，有四个姐妹，母亲班纳特太太整天操心着为女儿物色称心如意的丈夫。新来的邻居宾利来先生和他的朋友达西打破了她们一家人单调的乡村生活。宾利来和伊丽莎白的姐姐简互生情愫；达西对善良聪明的伊丽莎白产生了好感，而伊丽莎白却对达西不可一世的傲慢心存偏见，不接受他的感情。然而，世事难料，宾利来和简因为误会，关系危在旦夕；达西的种种作为，展示了性格中和伊丽莎白相同的善良一面，逐渐赢得了伊丽莎白的好感。两对有情人能否终成眷属？班纳特姐妹们能否得到自己想要的生活？简·奥斯汀以女性的特殊视角描绘了她对爱情的观点：寻找真正爱自己的人，追求完美的爱情。
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman, Mr Bennet, living in Longbourn.
Set in England in the late 18th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after two gentlemen have moved into their neighbourhood: the rich and eligible Mr Bingley, and his status-conscious friend, the even richer and more eligible Mr Darcy. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy is disdainful of local society and repeatedly clashes with the Bennets' lively second daughter, Elizabeth.

Jane Austen简·奥斯汀（1775-1817），19世纪英国女性小说家。生于英国小乡镇史蒂文顿的一个牧师家庭，几乎从未接受过正规教育，但由于家庭文学空气熏陶而成为作家。其作品主要描绘她在狭小生活圈子里所熟悉的中产阶级的家庭生活，青年男女的恋爱婚姻及其心态，具有观察细致，人物刻画惟妙惟肖，评论尖刻等艺术特色。其一生共创作了六部小说，分别是《理智与情感》《傲慢与偏见》《曼斯菲尔德庄园》《爱玛》《诺桑觉寺》《劝导》。
JANE AUSTEN was born on December 16, 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on July 18, 1817.
As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.
VIVIEN JONES is professor of Eighteenth-Century Gender and Culture in the School of English at theat University ofLeeds. She has published books onJane Austen andHenry James, and her published on gender and writing in the eighteenth century include Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity (1990) andWomen and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800 (2000), as well as numerous articles.
CLAIRE LAMONT is EmeritusProfessor ofEnglish Romantic Literature at Newcastle University.

Introduction 
Chronology
Further Reading
The Novelsof Jane Austen
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Note on the Text
Emendations to the Text 
Notes

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 neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day. “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?” Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.
“But it is,” returned she, “for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.”
Mr. Bennet made no answer.
“Do you not want to know who has taken it?” cried his wife impatiently.
“You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.”
This was invitation enough.
“Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaiseand fourto see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.”
“What is his name?”
“Bingley.”
“Is he married or single?”
“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”
How so? How can it affect them?
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, “how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”
“Is that his design in settling here?”
“Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.”
“I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as beautiful as any of them. Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party. ”