傲慢与偏见读书报告(英文)

2021年1月25日发(作者：佃农)
Pride and Prejudice

I. Introduction
Part One: About the Book.
Name:
Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen
Main characters: Mr. and Mrs. Bennet
Elizabeth Bennet
Mr. Darcy
Mr. Bingley
Jane Bennet
Mary Bennet
Catherine Bennet
Lydia Bennet
Mr. Wickham
Mr. Collins
Narrations: First and third person narration
Time:
Pride
and
Prejudice

was
first
written
in
1796
as
First
Impressions
.
It
was
rewritten
(and retitled) in 1812 and published in 1813
.

Part Two: About the Author.
Jane
Austen
(1775-1817)
was
born
at
Steventon
rectory
in
Hampshire,
England.
Austen
was the youngest daughter of the large family, with six brothers and one sister. Her father is a
clergyman.

When
Austen
was
eight
years
old,
she
was
sent
to
Oxford
to
be
educated.
Because
of
some accident, she returned
home to continue
her education. From 1785 to 1786, Austen and
her sister attended the
Reading
Ladies Boarding School,
where they studied French, spelling,
needlework,
music,
and
dancing.
Forced
to
return
home
for
economic
reasons,
Austen
continued to develop her literary mind under the guidance of her father.
Beginning
in
her
teen
years,
Austen
wrote
poems,
stories,
and
comic
pieces
for
the
amusement of
her
family. She compiled several of the pieces written between 1787 and 1793
into
three
bound
n
otebooks,
which
are
now
referred
as
Austen’s
Juvenilia.

Austen
was
also
exposed
to
drama
and
comedy.
Austen
also
became
to
sketch
out

ideas
for
the
novel
that
would later become
Sense and Sensibility
.

In
1795,
Austen
met
Tom
Lefroy,
the
nephew
of
their
neighbors
at
Steventon.
Austen
spent a great deal of time with Tom Lefroy and had romantic feelings with him. Unfortunately,
a
marriage between
the
two
was
impractical, and
Lefroy’s
family
soon sent
him away.
After
her brief romance with Lefroy, Austen began work on a second novel called
First Impressions
,
which would later become
Pride and Prejudice
.
While
living
at
Chawton,
Austen
saw
the
anonymous
publication
of
four
of
her
novels:
Sense
and
Sensibility

in
1811,
Pride
and
Prejudice

in
1813,
Mansfield
Park

in
1814,
and
Emma

in
1815.
In
July
1816,
Austen
completed
the
first
draft

of
her
next
novel,
titled
The
Elliots
, which would later be published as
Persuasion.


In early 1816, Austen suffered an illness (Most biographers believe that she suffered from
Addis
on’s
disease)
that
led
her
to
death
the
following
year.
Despite
her
illness,
Austen
continued
to
work on
her
writing. She revised
the ending to
The Elliots
and started work on
Sandition
. She died on July 8, 1817, leaving
Sandition
unfinished, and was burie
d at the city’s
famous
cathedral.
The
two
novels
Northanger
Abbey

and
Persuasion

were
published
posthumously as a set in 1817.

Jane
Austen
never
married
in
her
whole
life.
She
lived
most
of
her
life
in
a
community
much
like
the one
we
find
in
Pride and Prejudice
.
Austen’s
novel,
focusing on courtship and
marriage, remain well-known for their satiric depictions of English society and the manners of
the time.

Her
insights of the
lives of
women during
the
late eighteenth century and
the early
nineteenth century
–
in addition to her ability to handle form, satire, and irony
–
have made her
one of the most studied and influential novelists of her time.


II. Summary of the Book
The
narrative
opens
with
Mr.
Bingley,
a
wealthy,
charming
and
social
young
bachelor,
moving into Netherfield house in the neighborhood of the Bennet family. Mr. Bingley is soon