Pride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见 英文版原著

　　一部描写爱情与婚姻的永恒经典
　　英国作家毛姆称之为“所有小说中*令人满意的一部作品”

　　《傲慢与偏见》是简·奥斯汀的代表作。这部作品以日常生活为素材，一反当时社会上流行的感伤小说的内容和矫揉造作的写作方法，生动地反映了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。这部社会风情画式的小说不仅在当时吸引着广大的读者，时至今日，仍给读者以独特的艺术享受。

　　简·奥斯汀（1775—1817），英国女作家。生于乡村小镇斯蒂文顿一个牧师家庭。没有上过正规学校，但受到较好的家庭教育，主要教材就是父亲的文学藏书。20
岁左右开始写作，共出版了 6
部长篇小说。奥斯汀以女性特有的细致入微的观察力，真实地描绘了她周围的小天地，尤其是绅士淑女间的婚姻和爱情风波。她的作品格调轻松诙谐，富有喜剧性冲突，深受读者欢迎。主要作品有《理智与情感》、《傲慢与偏见》、《曼斯菲尔德庄园》、《爱玛》等。在英国小说的发展史上有承上启下的意义，被誉为地位“可与莎士比亚平起平坐”的作家。

Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs.
Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters. With what
delighted pride she afterwards visited Mrs. Bingley, and talked of
Mrs. Darcy, may be guessed. I wish I could say, for the sake of her
family, that the accomplishment of her earnest desire in the
establishment of so many of her children produced so happy an
effect as to make her a sensible, amiable, well-informed woman for
the rest of her life; though perhaps it was lucky for her husband,
who might not have relished domestic felicity in so unusual a form,
that she still was occasionally nervous and invariably silly.
Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection
for her drew him oftener from home than any thing else could do. He
delighted in going to Pemberley, especially when he was least
expected.
Mr. Bingley and Jane remained at Netherfield only a twelvemonth. So
near a vicinity to her mother and Meryton relations was not
desirable even to his easy temper, or her affectionate heart. The
darling wish of his sisters was then gratified; he bought an estate
in a neighbouring county to Derbyshire, and Jane and Elizabeth, in
addition to every other source of happiness, were within thirty
miles of each other.
Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time
with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had
generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so
ungovernable a temper as Lydia; and, removed from the influence of
Lydia’s example, she became, by proper attention and management,
less irritable, less ignorant, and less insipid. From the farther
disadvantage of Lydia’s society she was of course carefully kept,
and though Mrs. Wickham frequently invited her to come and stay
with her, with the promise of balls and young men, her father would
never consent to her going.
Mary was the only daughter who remained at home; and she was
necessarily drawn from the pursuit of accomplishments by Mrs.
Bennet’s being quite unable to sit alone. Mary was obliged to mix
more with the world, but she could still moralize over every
morning visit; and as she was no longer mortified by comparisons
between her sisters’ beauty and her own, it was suspected by her
father that she submitted to the change without much
reluctance.