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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - JANE AUSTEN - 1813

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Nobody apart from the author herself can ever have found Pride and Prejudice ‘rather too light, & bright, & sparkling’, as she wrote in a letter to her sister, but it is certainly all three of these things. Its lightness comes from its high-spirited invention and its masterfully contrived comic plot.

 Its brightness appears above all in its control of tone, which permeates the narrative, description and dialogue. And as for sparkling qualities, they reside in the sustained wit of the novel, democratically shared between a range of characters, not forgetting the narrator herself. Too modestly, Jane Austen went on to tell Cassandra that it wants shade;—it wants to be stretched out here & there with a long Chapter—of sense if it could be had, if not of solemn specious nonsense—about something unconnected with the story; an Essay on Writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonaparte—or anything that would form a contrast & bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness & Epigrammatism of the general stile.

1 In reality, as generations of readers have testified, the book has a wonderful economy of means which incorporates a subtle gradation in moods and veins of feeling. Up to this period, the word ‘contrast’ had served mainly as a technical term in the fine arts: ‘The juxtaposition of varied forms, colours, etc., so as to heighten by comparison the effect of corresponding parts and of the whole composition’, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it..............................................

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