Description
Fine dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Fine binding is black paper over boards, blue cloth-backed, gilt stamping on the spine, small stain on top of the book by back cover. The binding is tight and pages are clean. “1” is present in the number line which is a designation of first edition.
About the book: (from the dustjacket)
Charles Bingley, a handsome bachelor a good income, moves into a house near the Bennet family estate. He soon finds himself falling in love with Jane, the oldest of the five Bennet sisters, but his friend, the wealthy and aristocratic Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, disapproves of his choice. To Darcy the Bennet family is socially inferior. At the same time Darcy finds himself increasingly drawn to Elizabeth Bennet, Jane’s younger sister. The romantic clash of these two opinionated young people provides the sustaining theme of Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen’s classic novel captures all the affectations of class consciousness in the eighteenth century, but her characters are universal, they live beyond time and place and inhabit the realm of ultimate dramatic truth. George Eliot called Jane Austen “the greatest artist that has ever written,” and Sir Walter Scott wrote of her work “there is the truth of painting in her writings which always delights”.
About the author: (from the dustjacket)
Jane Austen was born at Steventon Parsonage, Hampshire, England on December 16, 1775, the seventh of eight children. She was educated by her father and began her writing career with parodies and sketches meant for the amusement of her family. She published only four novels during her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility in 1811, Pride and Prejudice in 1813, Mansfield Park in 1814, and Emma in 1816. She died in 1817 at the age of only forty-one Two novels, Northanger Abbey more and Persuasion, were published after her death.
