Pride and Penzance
This has to be one of the best worst Pride and Prejudice book covers ever. It looks like a publicity photo from the Bentonville Community Theater’s Spring production of The Pirates of Penzance.
Pride and Prejudice
Mom’s fishing for husbands — But the girls are hunting for love…
What’s a girl to do?
Scatterbrained, social climbing Mrs. Bennet makes one demand of her five daughters.
Marry. Marry well. Marry RICH.
But sweet Jane is hopelessly in love with Mr. Bingley, who doesn’t seem to notice. Flightly Lydia wants a man — any man — preferably one in uniform. Kitty just wants to have fun. Shy Mary has her nose in a book. And Elizabeth — brilliant, stubborn, independent Lizzy — refuses the advances of the most “marriageable” man in town — haughty, handsome, wealthy Mr. Darcy.
Mrs. Bennet’s in hysterics, Mr. Bennet’s in his study, Lydia’s eloped with a soldier and Jane’s heart may well be broken. Will any of the Bennet girls find true love and fortune?
Comments
Jamie
You’ve got your work cut out for you as there have been so many “Pride and Prejudice” plays and movies.
Also, you never know, what’s going to happen next because according to Jane Austen, “A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.”
Here’s an image I like from Pride&Prejudice:
http://i30.tinypic.com/2i8aq9e.jpg
jenny
This cover reminds me of our local library’s old, bizarre bodice-ripper of a VHS cover for the 1995 Ciaran Hinds/Amanda Root film version of “Persuasion.” I picked it up, did a Little Rascals double-take and felt much like this befuddled fellow video-searcher:
“Years ago when it first came out (on VHS), the cover depicted a young man and woman on the front cover who weren’t even in the movie. They were in a classic romance novel type pose. I was very confused by it and almost didn’t pick up the movie because I thought it must be another movie by the same name.”