...of an ironic, mildly mocking observation: 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 he on his first entering a neighbourhood,...

...Pride and Prejudice 3.1.1 Zusammenfassung "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in 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...

...Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813). "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife," reads this novel's famous opening line. This matching of wife to single man — or good fortune...

............................................................. 50 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in 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...

...writer expresses. If you cannot understand "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife," then you will not make much of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813/1906), of which...

...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...

...stiffly unavailable stance at the Meryton ball: 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,...