 | John Wilson Foster - 2006 - 255 Seiten
...fact, The Real Charlotte alludes several times to Austen's famous ironic epigram, 'that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife'. Most of the single men in the Irish tale, as in Pride and Prejudice (1813), are in no hurry... | |
 | Christine B. Whelan - 2006 - 256 Seiten
...Page 63 Chapter 4 Qentlemen Prefer drains It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. JANE AUSTEN, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1813) JUSTIN IS A 30-YEAR-OLD ASSOCIATE at an international... | |
 | Lee Siegel - 2009 - 304 Seiten
...sentences burst with malestyle certainty — "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" (the celebrated first sentence of Pride and Prejudice). Austen ironized such propositions into... | |
 | Peter FitzSimons - 2007 - 192 Seiten
...a path to his door.') Self-evident truths It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood,... | |
 | Brian McIlroy - 2007 - 302 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 100 Seiten
...able to do nothing else". - William Hazlitt "It is a truth universally acknowledged that A single man in possession of a good fortune. Must be in want of a wife. " - Jane Austen If JRD's first passion was flying, h's second passion was for fast cars! How... | |
 | Dominic Dodd, Ken Favaro - 2007 - 272 Seiten
...Parts 1. With apologies to Jane Austen. ("It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" — Pride and Prejudice.) 2. Under some definitions, the concept of synergy can be the same as... | |
 | Michael Bierut - 2007 - 280 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Aston - 2007 - 352 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Margaret C. Sullivan - 2007 - 232 Seiten
...most famous opening lines in literature, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in 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;... | |
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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. 
