Pride and Prejudice
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- USD 7.99
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- USD 7.99
Descripción editorial
The story of witty but prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet and her picturesque family is considered one of the most important in British literature. As a perfect expert in manner novels Jane Austen studies the relationships of the Bennets with other families and acquaintances in an extremely clever and eloquent way. Her favourite characters - Lizzy, Mrs. Bennet and Lydia are often lively and charismatic but also haughty and headstrong. Still, they make complete angels in comparison to the pompous and reserved Darcies. On the whole, the high society of her time was extremely annoying and plain for the writer herself.
The main purpose in life for the Bennet girls as also for all others is to get married successfully otherwise you will be a burden for your family. Curiously, here already we can see femimist notes as Jane Austen writes about men being free to do what they want and women bound to look back as to what the society would say. The Bennet girls all folow different path even while pursuing their dream about marrying, so some of them will find true love but others are to be badly deceived.
This intelligent and highly entertaining book shows all the sides of the society and women's role in it.
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Collagist Fabe adds flair to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice with 39 original illustrations that accompany the unabridged text. Fabe's collages overlay bright, watercolor-washed scenes with retro cut-paper figures and objects sampled from fashion magazines from the 1930s to the '50s. Accompanying each tableau is a quote from the Pride and Prejudice passage that inspired it. Like Austen's book, Fabe's work explores arcane customs of beauty and courtship, pageantry and social artifice: in one collage, a housewife holds a tray of drinks while a man sits happily with a sandwich in hand in the distance. While tinged with irony and more than a dash of social commentary, the collages nevertheless have a spirit of glee and evidence deep reverence for the novel. As Fabe describes in a preface, Austen "was a little bit mean the way real people are mean so there are both heroes and nincompoops. Family is both beloved and annoying. That is Austen's genius, her ability to describe people in all their frailty and humor." This is a sweet and visually appealing homage. (BookLife)
