Pride and Prejudice
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"Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart".
And... it is a truth universally acknowledged that the pride and the prejudice get along as good as—sometimes—the sense and the sensibility, in a man or a woman or between the two of them, as today’s novel so wittingly proves to us.
One of the funniest and most praised novels in the English language, Pride and Prejudice combines these themes, so dear to its author, Jane Austen, another favourite of book lovers of all ages.
And since there are books which become an instant success from sentence one, maybe no other novel in the English language is so easily recognizable by its first sentence than this one. Who has never smiled, nodding knowingly, while reading the words below, may (eagerly) turn the page.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
The said man being, of course, Mr Darcy, yours and truly, for besides Mr Bond, James Bond, do you know any other fictitious English gentleman so popular among women’s hearts?
And when the heart at stake is that of an outstanding young lady called Elizabet Bennet, the result can only be a most pleasurable reading experience. Maybe no other character in the vast exquisite array of Jane Austen’s resembles so much her creator and expresses her opinions and view on life and its funnily important matters in a more unreserved and witty way, “for she (Elisabeth) had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.”
Her fault: judging people on first impressions. His fault: being aloof and proud.
Pride and prejudice, prejudice and pride in a comic yet tender loop of alliterations and antitheses of the thoughts and feelings. A man and a woman? A mind and a soul, masculine and feminine confounded in the pleasurable serious endeavour of finding love. But, in order to succeed in this most delicate and volatile of games, as the book tells us, one need to overcome both…pride and prejudice.
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)
