Marvel Illustrated: Pride and Prejudice
Marvel’s five-issue comic of the novel, collected in one book.
A comic can carry the plot of a long novel in an afternoon, if someone chooses carefully which scenes to draw.
You want the whole plot in an afternoon, in panels.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the plot and the period, from the Bennets’ marriage problem to Pemberley.
Changes: the length, a great deal. Nancy Butler adapted the novel into five comic issues, drawn by Hugo Petrus.
Nancy Butler’s five-issue adaptation, drawn by Hugo Petrus, collected in one book.
Whose story is it?
Lizzy’s, as the comic calls her, and her sister Jane’s courtship alongside.
How much time does it ask?
120 pages, collecting issues 1 to 5.
Marvel: Pride & Prejudice, issues 1–5, collected; adapted by Nancy Butler, art by Hugo Petrus.
Where to find it
Buy the hardcover — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Hardcover — Amazon · Read the issues — Marvel · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into Longbourn: Penguin Classics, ed. Vivien Jones (2002) · The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2020) · The Norton Critical Edition, fourth edition