Pride and Prejudice
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Publisher Description
Thought Catalog Books is bringing back the classic Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The story takes place in 18th century Britain and follows the Bennet girls as they traverse love, marriage, and high society. The book has transfixed generations of readers and kindled a desire in many a young lady to search for her Mr. Darcy.
Pride and Prejudice has inspired numerous literary and film adaptations and appears here in its original form with a new cover.
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)
