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- 4. THE SECRET OF HER SUCCESS • What makes her world wide success so surprising is the narrowness of the world her stories portray, “three or four families in a country village”. “Her novels always end happily in the end. They are also funny,” says Nigel Nicolson. Also all the books have the same plot: searching for the right mate. Her lively characters both male and female, are such that readers still identify with them two centuries later. The novelist Henry James even compared Jane to Homer and Shakespeare.
- 5. The life of Jane Austen • She was born in 1775 in Steventon, in a family not well off . By the time she was 12 , she was writing fascinating stories of their amusement. She never married but she had three possible opportunities. She knew too well that for someone in her position marriage was very important, for the only suitable of her age was school teaching or being a governess. In her novels both money and marriage have important parts to play.
- 6. • After her father died she had an very hard life poorer than before. The rest of the family lived in the estate of one of the Jane’s brothers Edward. Than the was more happier and able to start writing. Her first novel was Sense and Sensibility(1811) and than Pride and Prejudice (1813). She died with a disease of the kidneys, at the age of 41.
- 7. JANE AUSTEN, A STAR WORLDWIDE • The influence of the cinema and television has led the worldwide success of Jane Austen. People first see the movie and than read the book. One of her books, Pride and Prejudice was voted in BCC poll in UK ‘the book the nation cannot live without’. Also one film was Oscar-winning which was based in her book Sense and Sensibility. The actress who adapted this movie said:”I do hope Jane know how big she is worldwide.”
- 8. Pride and prejudice is a novel set in 19-centry England about Bennet family and their five daughters. As the enchanting story unfolds the sister grow from young girls into young ladies and their entrance into proper society helps them to discover a much about the world they live in. Each sister has her own distinct personality but it is the intelligent, lively and sometimes stubborn Elizabeth who gradually discovers that first impressions are not always as they seem.