Pride and Prejudice: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)
by Jane Austen
Category: Fiction

The story of Elizabeth Bennet and how she deals with the manners, morality, education, marriage issues, and customs of the gentry in early 19th century England. Central to the story is Elizabeth's relationship with the walthy and unmarried Fitzwilliam Darcy, as well as with her sisters. Includes 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, Virgina Woolf, Henry James, and others, and a chronology.