 | Margaret C. Sullivan - Family & Relationships - 2007 - 232 pages
...was first published and is now widely respected. One of the most famous opening lines in literature, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife," gets the novel off to a rousing start. The heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, is one of five sisters; her father's... | |
 | Richard Lederer - Games & Activities - 2007 - 118 pages
...started by each sentence and the author of each work: 1. Call me Ishmael. 2. Nothing to be done. 3. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. 4. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. 5. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley,... | |
 | Thomas M. Leitch - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 374 pages
...does. Since the target audience would be keenly disappointed to lose Austen's immortal opening line — "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"33 — it can be moved from Charlotte Lucas's mouth, where screenwriter Fay Weldon had placed... | |
 | Vanessa Klink - 2007 - 188 pages
...auf die Verfilmungen später interessant sein können. 3.1 Pride and Prejudice 3.1.1 Zusammenfassung "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."69 Gemäss der Aussage des ersten Satzes des Romans, geht es in Pride and Prejudice variationsreich... | |
 | Jasper Fforde - Fiction - 2007 - 396 pages
...literature: "'It is a truth universally acknowledged,'" we heard her say through the closed door, " 'that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.' " "Thursday," said Bradshaw as he, Thursdays and I walked to the entrance hall, "we've kept the book... | |
 | Miss Read - Fiction - 2007 - 227 pages
...to live. io Amy Works Things Out '~I"T is a truth universally acknowledged,' Jane Austen tells I us, 'that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' A lesser truth, universally acknowledged, is that the first week of a fortnight's holiday is twice... | |
 | Andrew Haggerty - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 132 pages
...world with very litt ss or vex her. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and Chapter 1 Pride and Prejudice "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must he in want of a wife" (Pride and Prejudice, 5). Pride and Prejudice begins with one of the best known... | |
 | Brian McIlroy - History - 2007 - 302 pages
...that novel's famous first line, are undeniable. ("It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a young man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.") The film also draws on the comedy of errors (a form much used by Shakespeare — the low culture genre... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 288 pages
...innate nobility, she is also resisting Burke 's.8 Indeed, the first sentence of Pride and Prejudice, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife," reads to me like a sly parody of Burke, in his widely read... | |
 | Debra Taylor Bourdeau, Elizabeth Kraft - American literature - 2007 - 310 pages
...punctuation left intact, as in Tennant's Pemberley: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a son and heir."18 The sequel to the sequel, An Unequal Marriage, can boast another: "It is an opinion... | |
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. 
