Styles and themes of Jane Austen plain meaning of a statement with the comic, undermining the meaning of the original to create ironic disjunctions. In her juvenile works, she relies upon satire, parody and irony based on incongruity. Her mature novels employ irony to foreground social hypocrisy. In particular Austen uses irony to critique the marriage market. Perhaps the most famous example of irony in Austen is the opening line of "Pride and Prejudice": "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." At first glance, the sentence is straightforward and plausible,
Truth Is a Beautiful Thing Woman Oh Man" was released as the fourth single on 21 April 2017, peaking at number 85 on the UK Singles Chart. On 11 August 2017, "Non Believer" was sent to UK contemporary hit radio as the album's fifth single. The album's sixth single, "Hell to the Liars", was serviced to UK contemporary hit radio on 1 December 2017, followed by a digital release on 8 December. "Truth Is a Beautiful Thing" debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 43,403 copies, including 2,780 from sales-equivalent streams. Notes Credits adapted from the liner notes of