Orgullo y prejuicio

To the extent that World War II allowed, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film of Pride and Prejudice (1940), starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, was a big hit in Europe. Many cheap European paperbacks of this decade gesture to the film with cover art. Here Garson graces a Spanish example that retailed for 6 pesetas and packaged Austen as an escapist romance, or “la novela rosa.”