Pride and Prejudice the girls marry well in order to support the others upon his death. Jane Austen's opening line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife", is a sentence filled with irony and playfulness. The novel revolves around the importance of marrying for love, not simply for money, despite the social pressures to make a good (i.e., wealthy) match. "Pride and Prejudice" has long fascinated readers, consistently appearing near the top of lists of "most-loved books" among both literary scholars and the general public. It has
A Dream of Good Fortune drunken makkŏli, some of the men are singing, and some are dancing. The story ends with the suitor informing Kang that he will be Kang’s new son-in-law. The short story was translated by Marshall R. Pihl, Bruce Fulton, and Ju-Chan Fulton. It was published along with other short stories in "Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction"(). The collection has been highly praised for the quality of the stories and the accuracy of the translations (Epstein 579; McCann 213; Stephens 268). A Dream of Good Fortune "A Dream of Good Fortune" (돼지 꿈) was written by Korean author Hwang Sok-yong (황석영)