　　《昂秀书虫·世界经典文学名著系列：傲慢与偏见（全英文版）》以男女主人公达西和伊丽莎白·班纳特由于傲慢和偏见而产生的爱情纠葛为线索，描写了四段姻缘故事。
　　班纳特有五个待字闺中的千金，班纳特太太整天操心着为女儿物色称心如意的丈夫。新来的邻居宾利是个有钱的单身汉，他立即成了班纳特太太追猎的目标。在一次舞会上，宾利对班纳特家的大女儿简一见钟情，班纳特太太为此欣喜若狂。参加舞会的还有宾利的好友达西。他仪表堂堂，非常富有，许多姑娘纷纷向他投去羡慕的目光；他非常骄傲，认为她们都不配做他的舞伴，其中包括简的妹妹伊丽莎白。伊丽莎白自尊心很强，决定不去理睬这个傲慢的家伙。可是不久，达西对她活泼可爱的举止产生了好感，在另一次舞会上主动请她同舞，却遭到伊丽莎白的拒绝，但达西对伊丽莎白的好感有增无减。宾利的妹妹卡洛琳一心追求达西，但达西并没有把她放在心上。她发现达西对伊丽莎白有意后，非常妒忌，决意从中阻挠。达西虽然喜爱伊丽莎白，但却无法忍受她的母亲班纳特太太以及妹妹们的粗俗、无力的举止。在妹妹和好友达西的劝说下，宾利不辞而别，去了伦敦，但简对他的一片深情未改。班纳特夫妇没有儿子，依据当时的法律规定，只有男性可以继承财产，因此他的家产将由远亲柯林斯继承。柯林斯平庸又善于趋炎附势，依靠权势当上了牧师。他向伊丽莎白求婚，遭拒绝后，立刻和伊丽莎白的好友夏洛蒂结了婚，伊丽莎白为此感到很苦恼。附近小镇的民团里有个英俊潇洒的青年军官威克翰，人见人爱，伊丽莎白竟也对他产生了好感。……

作者简介

简·奥斯汀（Jane Austen），1775-1817，英国著名小说家。她生于英国汉普郡的史蒂文顿，兄弟姐妹八人。父亲在该地担任了四十多年的教区长，母亲出身于比较富有的家庭，也具有一定的文化修养。她在十三四岁就开始写东西。1796年，21岁的奥斯汀写成她的第一部小说，题名《最初的印象》。同年，她又开始写《埃莉诺与玛丽安》，以后她又写《诺桑觉寺》，于1799年写完。十几年后，《最初的印象》经过改写，换名为《傲慢与偏见》，《埃莉诺与玛丽安》经过改写，换名为《理智与情感》，分别得到出版。

简·奥斯汀的作品主要关注乡绅家庭女性的婚姻和生活，以女性特有的细致入微的观察力和活泼风趣的文字真实地描绘了她周围世界的小天地。她被誉为地位“可与莎士比亚平起平坐”的作家。

精彩书摘

　　《昂秀书虫·世界经典文学名著系列：傲慢与偏见（全英文版）》：
　　Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley. They attacked him in various ways - with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises - but he eluded the skill of them all; and they were at last obliged to accept the secondhand intelligence of their neighbour Lady Lucas. Her report was highly favourable. Sir William had been delighted with him. He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable, and to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assembly with a large party. Nothing could be more delightful! To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively hopes of Mr. Bingley's heart were entertained.
　　"If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield,"said Mrs. Bennet to her husband, "and all the others equally well married,I shall have nothing to wish for."
　　In a few days Mr. Bingley returned Mr. Bennet's visit, and sat about ten minutes with him in his library. He had entertained hopes of being admitted to a sight of the young ladies, of whose beauty he had heard much; but he saw only the father. The ladies were somewhat more fortunate, for they had the advantage of ascertaining from an upper window that he wore a blue coat and rode a black horse.
　　An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards dispatched; and already had Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all. Mr.Bingley was obliged to be in town the following day, and consequently unable to accept the honour of their invitation, etc. Mrs. Bennet was quite disconcerted. She could not imagine what business he could have in town so soon after his arrival in Hertfordshire; and she began to fear that he might be always flying about from one place to another, and never settled at Netherfield as he ought to be. Lady Lucas quieted her fears a little by starting the idea of his being gone to London only to get a large party for the ball, and a report soon followed that Mr. Bingley was to bring twelve ladies and seven gentlemen with him to the assembly. The girls grieved over such a number of ladies; but were comforted the day before the ball by hearing that, instead of twelve, he had brought only six with him from London, his five sisters and a cousin. And when the party entered the assembly room, it consisted of only five altogether; Mr. Bingley, his two sisters, the husband of the eldest, and another young man.
　　Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. His sisters were fine women,with an air of decided fashion. His brother-in-law, Mr. Hurst, merely looked the gentleman; but his friend Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mienand the report which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance of his having ten thousand a year. The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which tumed the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud,to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding,disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.
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