Stolz und Vorurteil

Hardcover, 368 pages

German language

Published Dec. 25, 2007 by Anaconda.

ISBN:
978-3-86647-178-8
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OCLC Number:
183897583

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Im England des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts steht die junge und schöne Elisabeth Bennet vor einer großen Lebensentscheidung: der Wahl eines geeigneten Heiratskandidaten. Ihr allzu stolzes Wesen jedoch vernebelt ihr ein ums andere Mal den Blick, bis sie nach vielen Verwicklungen schließlich doch die Liebe ihres Lebens findet.

Jane Austens berühmtester Roman ‘Stolz und Vorurteil’, der 1813 erschien, krönt die erste Schaffensphase der englischen Autorin und sicherte ihr einen Platz in den Annalen der Weltliteratur.

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Pride And Prejudice is a difficult novel for me to review because, although this was my first reading of Austen's work, I have already encountered its essential storyline in televised adaptations and numerous other novels so I felt as though I was revisiting the book rather than coming to it fresh. I enjoyed the humour, especially Austen's partly-veiled observations on the predicament of women rendered useless without a husband and, of course, her wonderful characters. Austen had such a talent for observation and for just exaggerating foibles enough to make people such as Mrs Bennet and Lady Catherine ridiculous, but not unbelievable. Personally I wasn't convinced by Darcy's complete change of behaviour mid-book, but both he and Elizabeth have wonderfully sparkling conversations and spats with the great energy fairly leaping from the page. The repression of their social situation contrasts brilliantly with the obvious strength of their emotional attraction to …

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