Pride and Prejudice
Contributors: Pat Rogers (Editor)
Edition: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 622
ISBN-13: 9780521825146
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Literary Collections; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; General; Literary Collections / General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Courtship; Fiction; Social classes; Young women
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.
Description: 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' With this famous declaration Jane Austen launches into the story of the five Bennet sisters. It is a story that on first reading is full of suspense, surprise and, ultimately, satisfaction, and which on re-reading commands, in addition, admiration for the author's supreme skill in managing a deceptively complex plot to its triumphant conclusion. First published in 1813, and Austen's most popular novel in her own lifetime, Pride and Prejudice has since been widely recognised as one of the finest novels in the English language. This volume, first published in 2006, provides comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, a chronology of Austen's life and an authoritative textual apparatus. This edition is an indispensable resource for all scholars and readers of Austen.

• The first fully annotated scholarly edition of Austen's complete works 
• Based on authoritative texts edited by senior scholars 
• Pride and Prejudice is Austen's most popular novel

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Table of contents: title: General Editor’s preface ix; title: Acknowledgements xiii; title: Chronology xv; title: Introduction xxii; title: Note on the text lxxix; title: Pride and Prejudice 1; title: Corrections and emendations to 1813 text 432; title: Appendix 1: Thomas Egerton and the; title: publication history 437; title: Appendix 2: Legal and military background 441; title: Appendix 3: Pemberley and its models 452; title: Appendix 4: Note on the second and third editions of; title: Pride and Prejudice 456; title: Abbreviations 459; title: Explanatory notes 461