| Nicole Gast - 2007 - 26 pages
...social as well as financial stability. In the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice Austen wrote, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune, must be in want of a wife". ' Actually, Austen, a systematic ironist, meant that a single... | |
| Elizabeth Aston - Fiction - 2007 - 352 pages
...love The Second Mrs. Darcy Chapter One "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a husband." Lady Brierley made this pronouncement in booming tones that brooked no disagreement. "Of... | |
| Michael Bierut - Art - 2007 - 280 pages
...more time reading jane Austen: after all, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a corporation in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a logo, isn't it? Finding that one perfect logo is worth its own romantic novel. All of this is compounded... | |
| Quentin D. Wheeler - Science - 2008 - 256 pages
...eferences........................................................................................................... 50 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. (Opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813) INTRODUCTION Taxonomy is often characterized... | |
| Andrew Hodges - Counting - 2008 - 346 pages
...updates and answers to problems are on the Web at www.cryptographic.co.uk/onetonine 1 The Unloved One It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a goodjbrtune must be in want of a wife. So runs a famous first sentence, full of statements about One.... | |
| Tim Whitmarsh - History - 2008 - 332 pages
...insists. When Jane Austen begins Pride and Prejudice with 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife', she is knowingly intertwining the social value of the institution of marriage, so essential to the... | |
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