Pride and Prejudice

Description

The first edition of the novel (1813). Introductory materials and revised and expanded footnotes by Donald Gray and Mary A. Favret. Biographical portraits of Austen by family members and— new to this edition— by Jon Spence (from Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (from The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things). Fourteen critical essays—eleven of them new to this edition. "Writers on Austen"—a new section of brief comments by Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and others. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

Description

A perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Editions series, Pride and Prejudice is based on the 1813 first edition text, which has been thoroughly annotated for undergraduate readers. "Backgrounds and Sources" includes biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and by acclaimed biographers Claire Tomalin and David Nokes. Seventeen of Austen's letters - eight of them new to the Third Edition - allow readers to glimpse the close-knit society that was Austen's world, both in life and in her writing. Samples of Austen's early writing - from the epistolary Love and Friendship and A Collection of Letters allow readers to trace her growth as a writer as well as to read her fiction comparatively. "Criticism" features eighteen assessments of the novel by nineteenth- and twentieth-century commentators, six of them new to the Third Edition. Among them is an interview with Colin Firth on the recent BBC television adaptation of the novel. Also included are pieces by Richard Whately, Margaret Oliphant, Richard Simpson, D. W. Harding, Dorothy Van Ghent, Alistair Duckworth, Stuart Tave, Marilyn Butler, Nina Auerbach, Susan Morgan, Claudia L. Johnson, Susan Fraiman, Deborah Kaplan, Tara Goshal Wallace, Cheryl L. Nixon, David Spring, Edward Ahearn, and Donald Gray. Also included are a Note on Money, a Chronology of Austen's life and an updated Selected Bibliography. --Back cover

First Sentence

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Subjects

Genres

• Fiction.

Series Statement

• A Norton Critical Edition

Other Editions

• Pride and PrejudicePaperbackW. W. Norton & Company2001-01-01
• Pride and prejudicePaperbackW. W. Norton & Company1966-01-01
• Pride and PrejudicePaperbackW. W. Norton & Company1966-01-01
• Pride and prejudice. An authoritative text, backgrounds, reviews, and essays in criticismNorton1966-01-01
• Pride and PrejudicePaperbackW.W. Norton1993-01-01
• Pride and PrejudicePaperbackW. W. Norton & Company2016-01-01