num_pages: 421
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 Friendshipand 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
language: English
title: Pride and Prejudice
titlecomplete: Pride and Prejudice
characters: Mrs. Gardiner, George Wickham, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Jane Bennet, Kitty Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet, Charles Bingley, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Jane Bennet, Mary Bennet, Kitty Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Caroline Bingley, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Georgiana Da, Georgiana Darcy, Charlotte Lucas, Mr. William Collins, Lydia Bennet, Caroline Bingley, Mary Bennet, Mr. Gardiner, Mrs. Bennet, Mr. Bennet
genres: Historical, Literature, Audiobook, Classics, Novels, Adult, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 4066747
places: Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, England, Derbishire and Hertfordshire, England, Derbyshire, England
publisher: Norton