" Pride and Prejudice "

Author: (English) Austen
Translator: Zhang Jinghao
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Pride and Prejudice is one of the most widely read and enduring classics in the world, included in Maugham's recommended "Top Ten World Novel Classics," and Austen's most beloved and widely read work. Jane Austen is one of the few renowned female writers in history, known as a "miniature painter" and "domestic novelist" between the neoclassicism and the lyricalism of the Romantic movement. Literary critics regard her as a British writer comparable to Shakespeare in terms of immortality. According to the "British Favorite Novels" survey released by the BBC on December 13, 2003, Pride and Prejudice ranked second. In 1985, it was selected as one of the "Best Books of All Time" by LIFE magazine in the United States and ranked fourth.