This is the first sentence of Pride and Prejudice and stands as one of the most famous first lines in literature. Even as it briskly introduces the arrival of Mr. Bingley at Netherfield—the event that sets the novel in motion—this sentence also offers a miniature sketch of the entire plot‚ which concerns itself with the pursuit of “single men in possession of a good fortune” by various female characters. The preoccupation with socially advantageous marriage in nineteenth-century English society manifests
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century‚ is holding up its head as a dominant literary genre. It was immediately after 1740 that the English novel suddenly arose from the lower forms and came to embody‚ as no other literary form did‚ the spirit of the age. The glorious work of Richardson and Fielding was followed by that of the two other major novelists of the eighteenth century‚ namely‚ Smollett and Sterne. Soon the whole English literary air was thick with a staggeringly vast number of novels produced by a host of writers. Let
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germs of this technique are quite conspicuous also in such eighteenth century novels as Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740) and Lawrence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759-67). The first proper application of this mode of narration is found in French novelist Edouard Dujardin’s novel Les Lauriers sont coupes or The Laurels Have Been Cut (1888). In England such writers as Henry James‚ Dorothy Richardson and Joseph Conrad made remarkable experiments with this mode which paved the way for James Joyce and Virginia
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(d) None of these. Q.2: - It is truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. The above lines have been illustrated from the novel – (a) Pride and Prejudice (b) Mayor of caster bridge (c) Pamela (d) Treasure Island Q.3: - Who wrote ‘Hard Times’? (a) Charles Dickens (c) Thomas Hardy Q.4: - What did “Kissa Goi” means— (a) The art of story telling (c) Slave Trade Q.5: - The first novel to be serialized was— (a) Hard Times (c) Pickwick papers
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With today’s hectic lifestyles‚ timesaving products are increasingly in demand. Perhaps one of the most obvious examples is fast food. Today the demand for the‚ hectic lifestyles‚ timesaving products are increasingly. Obliviously one of the example is Fast Food Industry. The rate of growth in consumer expenditures on fast food has led most other segments of the food-away-from home market for much of the last two decades. Since 1982‚ there is growth rate in consumer spending at fast food. The consumers
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NOVELS‚ SOCIETY AND HISTORY S.NO. Name Novel Features Other specifications 1 Samuel Richardson Pamela Epistolary novel-(Written in the form of a series of letters) 2 Henry Fielding Tom Jones (1749) Costly for poor 3 Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers Serialized in a magazine known as “All the Round Year” Serialization allowed readers to relish the suspense. 4 Leo Tolstoy War and peace Russian novelist who wrote extensively on rural life and community. 5 Charles Dickens
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Ever since the Middle Ages‚ most people around the globe created a false belief that the world we live in was stationary. They also believed that the earth was the center of the solar system. It wasn’t until the 1500’s that this theory was challenged. The time of scientific discovery was known as the scientific revolution. During this time‚ there were many improvements in science and experimentation. Old theories were being rejected by new laws that proved them wrong. As science improved‚ so did
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THE personal history of Aphra Behn‚ the first Englishwoman to earn her livelihood by authorship‚ is unusually interesting but very difficult to unravel and relate. In dealing with her biography writers at different periods have rushed headlong to extremes‚ and we now find that the pendulum has swung to its fullest stretch. On the one hand‚ we have prefixed to a collection of the Histories and Novels‚ published in 1696‚ ’The Life of Mrs. Behn written by one of the Fair Sex’‚ a frequently reprinted
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The English Novel George Saintsbury The English Novel Table of Contents The English Novel...............................................................................................................................................1 George Saintsbury ....................................................................................................................................2 PREFACE...............................................................................................
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Plot summary Book I The novel begins with the affable‚ intrusive narrator outlining the nature of our hero. Joseph Andrews is the brother of Richardson’s Pamela and is of the same rustic parentage and patchy ancestry. At the age of ten years he found himself tending to animals as an apprentice to Sir Thomas Booby. It was in proving his worth as a horseman that he first caught the eye of Sir Thomas’s wife‚ Lady Booby‚ who employed him (now seventeen) as her footman. After the death of Sir Thomas
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