dull stories about ordinary people. But her supposed ordinary people are
really not such very ordinary people. Let anyone who is inclined to criticise
on this score endeavor to construct one character from among the ordinary
people of his own acquaintance that shall be capable of interesting any reader
for ten minutes. It will then be found how great has been the discrimination
of Miss Austen in the selection of her characters, and how skillful is her
treatment in the management of them. It is true that the events are for the
most part those of daily life, and the feelings are those connected with the
usual joys and griefs of familiar existence; but these are the very events and
feelings upon which the happiness or misery of most of us depends; and the
field which embraces them, to the exclusion of the wonderful, the sentimental,
and the historical, is surely large enough, as it certainly admits of the most
profitable cultivation.
In the end, too, the novel of daily real life is that of which we are
least apt to weary: a round of fancy balls would tire the most vigorous
admirers of variety in costume, and the return to plain clothes would be
hailed with greater delight than their occasional relinquishment ever gives.
Miss Austen's personages are always in plain clothes, but no two suits are
alike: all are worn with their appropriate differen AS we should expect from
such a life, Jane Austen's view of the world is genial, kindly, and, we
repeat, free from anything like cynicism. It is that of a clear-sighted and
somewhat satirical onlooker, loving what deserves love, and amusing herself
with the foibles, the self-deceptions, the affectations of humanity. Refined
almost to fastidiousness, she is hard upon vulgarity; not, however, on good-
natured vulgarity, such as that of Mrs. Jennings in "Sense and Sensibility,"
but on vulgarity like that of Miss Steele, in the same novel, combined at once
with effrontery and with meanness of soul.
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Pride and Prejudice was written by Jane Austen.The author was born in 1775
in Hampshireand passed away in 1817 at the age of fourty-three. It was first
published in1813 and has been one of the greatest novels ever since then.It
has been translated into numbers of languages and several movies have been
made based on the original novel.
wIt tells of a love stor between Elizabeth and Darcy as well as
Elizabeth’s sister. It consists of 42 chapters in all. Mr. Darcy is the hero
who is rich and proud. Elizabeth is the second daughter while Jane is the
first daughter
wEverything starts with Bingley’s arrival. When Mrs.Bennet hear Bingley
has bought a house near her home .The mother of four daughters is so happy and
conceived that one of her daughters will beome his wife. Fortunately, Bingley
and Jane met at an evening dancing party and they soon fell in love with each
other. However,Darcy, Bingley’s best friend , was also attracted