姓名：苏环 班级：英本一班 学号：2010060641018 日期：2013-5-1

A Book Report on

Jane Austen was born into a Middle-class family in 1775. She was the seventh child of Rev.George Austen, rector of Steventon. With her sisters she was educated at home, and passed her life very quietly, cheerfully, in the doing of small domestic duties. She began to write at an early age. Walter Scott was her admirer until her early death; but these two, the greatest writers of fiction in their age ,were never brought together. Jane Austen never married on the whole life. She died, quietly as she had lived, at Winchester, in 1817,and was buried in the cathedral.She was a bright, attractive little women, whose sunny qualities are unconsciously reflected in all her books. Jane Austen completed six novels, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Each is perfect, and there is no choosing between them for one who enjoys her quiet irony and her simple delicate analysis of character. She was the founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middle-class people and of which there are many fine examples in later English fiction. Her style is easy and effortless, a perfect example of what De Quincey meant when he said that we should have to turn to the prose of the cultivated gentlewoman for English uncorrupted by the slang and cant of the world.

The main idea of chapter one and two of Pride and Prejudice is as follows. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife. At such a situation, a kind of people like Mrs.Bennet appeared. The chief business of Mrs.Bennet’s life was to find suitable husbands for her five daughters. When a single gentleman with a large fortune by the name of Bingley moves into a mansion called Netherfield Park, the news quickly spreads through the neighborhood via gossipy women. In order that one of their daughters can marry such a rich young man, Mrs.Bennet begs her husband to visit Mr.Bingley. While Mr.Bennet was so odd a person,sarcastic humor, reserve ,and caprice, that Mrs.Bennet so speechless and complaining. In

fact, Mr.Bennet is the first one of that area to visit Mr.Bingley without telling Mrs.Bennet. Finally, Mrs.Bennet and her daughters know that. The following thing that girls are going to do is preparing for the ball with Mr.Bingley.

Just from the two chapter, I can conclude that Mrs.Bennet is frivolous, excitable, and narrow-minded, and she imagines herself susceptible to attacks of tremors and palpitations. Though all what she had done just for her daughters, including instigating her daughters to marry rich men, I really do not like her way. Instead, I have a good impression on Mr.Bennet. He has a sarcastic, cynical sense of humour that he purposefully uses to irritate his wife. He loves his daughters (Elizabeth in particular), too.But he does not do as his wife. Comparatively, he is much more reason. From this we can see, marriage at that time of England just like a deal. They pay much attention to a man’s possession but his quality.

 

第二篇：Doc13傲慢与偏见读后感 英文版

This book is quite possibly the most insipid novel I have ever read in my life. Why this book is so highly treasured by society is beyond me. It is 345 pages of nothing. The characters are like wispy shadows of something that could be interesting, the language that could be beautiful ends up becoming difficult to decipher and lead me more than once to skip over entire paragraphs because I became tired of having to stumble through them only to emerge unsatisfied, and the plot is non-existent, as though Austen one day decided she wanted to write a novel and began without having any idea what would happen except that there would be a boy and a girl who seemingly didn’t like each other but in the end got married. The story really probably could have been told in about 8 pages, but Austen makes us slog through 345 pages of mind-numbing balls and dinner-parties. I don’t care what anyone says, this is not great literature. This is a snore.