Pride and Prejudice
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Publisher Description
Pride and Prejudice narrates the adventures and love misadventures of the Bennet sisters, focusing on the character of Elizabeth, through which the author comically presents the society of her time and places women in a more notorious place than the one it corresponded to him in his time with the figure of the protagonist.
The first sentence of the novel is one of the best known in world literature: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
"Pride and Prejudice" is a fierce criticism of social conventions and the gap between classes. The protagonist of it, determined to marry for love, assumes without drama the threat of singleness, the great stigma of women of the time.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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)
