Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
From
lithub
Of all the delightful idiots filling the pages of our well-worn copies of Pride and Prejudice (hint: this is everyone except maybe Charlotte), Mrs Bennet is one of the best
bobbygw's insight:
Rachel Dunphy is a freelance essayist and journalist. Her work has been published in New York Magazine and the Huffington Post.
No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
Scoop.it!
From
www
Linguist Geoff Nunberg describes the opening sentence to Pride and Prejudice as a "masterpiece of indirection" that is frequently repurposed, but whose irony is never matched.
|
Scoop.it!
From
www
As the classic novel celebrates its bicentennial, Paula Byrne's The Real Jane Austen examines some of the key objects in Austen's life and how they reveal a much more cosmopolitan awareness of the world than is commonly credited to her.
Scoop.it!
In her fiction, the 18th-century novelist wrestled with the same question that preoccupied Adam Smith: Does the pursuit of wealth diminish a person's moral integrity?
Pierre Cot's curator insight,
September 20, 2014 9:43 AM
Does the pursuit of wealth diminish a person's moral integrity? Lack of moral values are learned from society and from the father's (family) example. |
