Pride and Prejudice
Series: Rainbow Classics
Publisher: Saturn Press
Published: xxxx
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 435
Description: During her short lifetime, Jane Austen wrote six novels, notable for their charm, in- telligence, and gentle satire. Each one has been much-loved, but the greatest favorite has always been Pride and Prejudice, the story of Elizabeth Bennet and her proud suitor, Darcy.

In her Introduction, May Lamberton Becker says, "Opening an Austen novel is entering a tight little world where you may have money but you must have manners, where the Napoleonic wars may be going on somewhere outside, but the rhythm of an established social life is undisturbed."

The ladies and gentlemen of Jane Aus. ten's world are concerned primarily with themselves, their balls and parties, and their romances. Because Jane understood her peo- ple so well, and portrayed them so deftly, it is easy to understand why her novels have been read and loved for over one hundred years.

The illustrations which Edgard Cirlin has done for this edition are particularly appro- priate to the text, for they have caught the story's spirited humor. Mrs. Becker calls them "delicate, polished, haughty and high- mannered."