Jane Austen Pride And Prejudice An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds And Sources 2016

Synopsis

The text is that of the 1813 first edition, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations.<br><br> This Norton Critical Edition also includes: <br> - 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).<br> - 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.<br> - "Writers on Austen"--a new section of brief comments by Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and others.<br> - A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.<br>