Pride and Prejudice: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

ISBN: 0393264882

Author: Austen, Jane

Condition: New

The Norton Critical Edition of Pride and Prejudice has been revised to reflect the most current scholarly approaches to Austens most widely read novel. The text is that of the 1813 first edition, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations.This Norton Critical Edition also includes: Biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and, new to the Fourth Edition, those by Jon Spence (Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things). Fourteen critical essays, eleven of them new to the Fourth Edition, reflecting the finest current scholarship. Contributors include Janet Todd, Andrew Elfenbein, Felicia Bonaparte, and Tiffany Potter, among others. Writers on Austen-a new section of brief comments by Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and others. A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.