Pride and prejudice

An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism

Paperback, 413 pages

English language

Published July 15, 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company.

ISBN:
978-0-393-97604-5
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OCLC Number:
912405072

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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 …

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Subjects

  • Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
  • Social classes -- Fiction
  • Young women -- Fiction
  • Courtship -- Fiction
  • Sisters -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction