Pride and Prejudice
Subtitle: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism
By: Edited by Donald Gray, Indiana University
Contributors: Gray, Donald J.
Edition: Third Edition
Series: A Norton Critical Edition
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Norton
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780393976045
Copyright date: 2001, 1993, 1996
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Social classes -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; Courtship -- Fiction; Sisters -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-413)