Friday, February 4, 2011

Authors...Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice has one of my favorite opening lines:

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

What does it mean?

1 comment:

  1. I've been thinking about this on and off all day. It bothers me. First, I bet the "truth universally" must only be in the English gentry universe. Second, that it's a man and a wife. Yuck. Third, that the wife seems to be part of the the fortune.

    Glad that has changed. I remember "Pride and Prejudice". I enjoyed reading it. But it certainly has to be understood from the times and the position of the people.

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