Description

Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with this beautiful gift edition of her bold and brilliant novel about privilege, class, love and growing up. It comes with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and is finished with a silk ribbon.

Fanny Price’s rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny’s childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her position. Her only ally is her cousin Edmund. When her cousins befriend two glamorous new young people who have arrived in the area, Henry and Mary Crawford, Edmund starts to grow close to Mary and Fanny finds herself dealing with feelings she has never experienced before.

This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.

Publisher Review

Full of the energies of discord – sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity * Margaret Drabble * Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire — J.K. Rowling Jane Austen at her most genteelly acerbic * The Times * Austen looks at her world with a cool, undressing gaze…she is a formidable opponent of hypocrisy and sentimentality * Observer *