Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth Bennet dislikes Mr Darcy on sight, but first impressions prove dangerous in a world built around marriage. Celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday with this beautiful gift edition of Pride and Prejudice, featuring foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and a silk ribbon. Elizabeth Bennet is clever, observant and unimpressed when she first encounters Mr Darcy. His pride and his judgement of her family make him easy to dislike, even as Mr Bingley's attachment to her older sister Jane draws the households together. Balls, proposals, rivalries, social embarrassment and family pressure turn love into a contest between feeling and understanding. Austen's classic romance remains one of the sharpest and funniest novels about manners, marriage, money and misjudgement. This Vintage Collector's Classics hardback is a beautiful gift for Austen readers, collectors and anyone looking for a timeless love story in a deluxe sprayed-edge edition. READERS ARE OBESSED WITH VINTAGE COLLECTOR'S CLASSICS 'These might be the most beautiful books I've ever seen. Get them in an art gallery.' 'The marbled paper <3 I could cry.' 'Love love love this collection. ' 'I must have all of them <3 <3.' 'Our beloved classics with sprayed edges too! They are absolutely STUNNING!'

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.