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Pride and prejudice

An authoritative text, backgrounds, reviews, and essays in criticism

By Donald Gray,Jane Austen

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Publish Date

1966

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Language

eng

Pages

441

Description:

The first edition of the novel (1813). Introductory materials and revised and expanded footnotes by Donald Gray and Mary A. Favret. 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, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and others. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

subjectsBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Brothers and sisters,  Children's fiction,  Courtship,  Drama,  English fiction,  English literature,  Families,  Family,  Family life,  Family relations,  Fiction,  Fiction Classics,  History,  Interpersonal relations,  Juvenile fiction,  Literary Fiction,  love stories,  manners,  Manners and customs,  marriage,  Romance,  Sisters,  Social classes,  Social life and customs,  Upper class,  wealth,  Women in England,  young ladies,  Young women,  entail,  Pride and prejudice (Austen, Jane),  Austen, jane, 1775-1817,  Bennet, elizabeth (fictitious character), fiction,  England, fiction,  Young women, fiction,  Darcy, fitzwilliam (fictitious character), fiction,  Sisters, fiction,  Austen, jane , 1775-1817,  Bennet, elizabeth,  Darcy, fitzwilliam,  Young women--fiction,  Courtship--fiction,  Sisters--fiction,  Social classes--fiction,  Young women in literature,  Courtship in literature,  Pr4034 .p7 2001,  823/.7

PeopleElizabeth Bennet,  Fitzwilliam Darcy,  Charlotte Lucas,  George Wickham,  Mr. Bennet,  Mrs. Bennet,  Jane Bennet,  Mary Bennet,  Catherine Bennet,  Lydia Bennet,  Charles Bingley,  Caroline Bingley,  William Collins,  Catherine de Bourgh

PlacesEngland,  Brighton,  Derbyshire,  Hertfordshire,  Meryton,  Longbourn,  Netherfield,  Pemberley,  Great Britain,  Ying guo

Times1789-1820,  19th century