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 English Library
出版时间：2012
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141199078
商品尺寸：12.2 x 1.9 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：396

Pride and Prejudice《傲慢与偏见》以男女主人公达西和伊丽莎白·班纳特由于傲慢和偏见而产生的爱情纠葛为线索，描写了四段姻缘故事，文笔辛辣而滑稽，是简·奥斯汀极富喜剧色彩、引人入胜的一部作品。这部小说生动反映了18世纪末到19世纪初处于保守和闭塞状态下的英国乡镇生活和世态人情，被英国著名小说家和戏剧家毛姆列为世界十大小说之一。
本书为Penguin English Library推出英文版，内容完整无删节，书后附英国著名作家J.B.普里斯特莱的精彩赏析，有助于读者理解原文内容。
The Penguin English Library Edition of Pride and Prejudice by 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.

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。
With its sparkling wit, clever heroine and moving love story, Pride and Prejudice is an immaculate comedy of manners, and Jane Austens most popular novel.
Lizzy Bennet finds eligible bachelor Darcy arrogant the first time she meets him, and when she hears he has been meddling in her familys affairs is determined to dislike him even more. Darcy, however, finds himself increasingly attracted to her good looks and lively mind. In the story of misunderstandings that follows, Lizzy is led to question everything she thought she knew.

Jane Austen简·奥斯汀（1775-1817），19世纪英国著名女性小说家。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著名作家。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 (1775-1817) is one of English literature’s greatest and most widely read writers– one of the four “great English novelist”, according to F. R. Leavis (along with George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad). Her novels, both romantic fiction and acerbic social commontary, includeSense and Sensibility,Pride and Prejudice,Mansfield Park,Emma,Persuasion andNorthanger Abbey. The second ofAusten’s six novels to be published,Pride and Prejudice endures as one of the most well-known and widely loved novels in the English language.

Pride and Prejudice
Austen Portrays a Small World with Humour and Detachment by J.B. Priestley

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. ”