Pride and Prejudice

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 FriendshipA 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 work—new to the Third Edition—and an updated Selected Bibliography.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (born Dec. 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, Eng.-died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire) English novelist. The daughter of a rector, she lived in the circumscribed world of minor landed gentry and country clergy that she was to use in her writing; her closest companion was her sister, Cassandra. Her earliest known writings are mainly parodies, notably of sentimental fiction. In her six full-length novels-Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), Persuasion (1817), and Northanger Abbey (published 1817 but written before the others)-she created the comedy of manners of middle-class English life in her time. Her writing is noted for its wit, realism, shrewd sympathy, and brilliant prose style. Through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life, she was the first to give the novel its distinctly modern character. She published her novels anonymously; two appeared only after her death, which probably resulted from Addison disease.

Pride and Prejudice belongs to the romantic-comedy genre and is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature—"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797, and was initially called First Impressions, but was never published under that title. Following revisions it was published on 28 January 1813 by the same Mr. Egerton of the Military Library, Whitehall, who had brought out Sense and Sensibility. Like both its predecessor and Northanger Abbey, it was written at Steventon Rectory.

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Presents the 1813 first edition text of Pride and Prejudice, accompanied by an interesting selection of background material including biographical portraits by Austin's family members and biographers, 17 letters written by Austin (eight new to this edition), and 18 critical pieces by 19th and 20th century commentators (six new to this edition).
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This edition, based on the 1813 first-edition text has been thoroughly annotated. It contains biographical portraits of Austen by her family and biographers, letters and samples of her early writing and 18 critical assessments of the novel.

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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.

Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree.
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--Alix Wilber

From Library Journal

Austen is the hot property of the entertainment world with new feature film versions of Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility on the silver screen and Pride and Prejudice hitting the TV airwaves on PBS. Such high visibility will inevitably draw renewed interest in the original source materials. These new Modern Library editions offer quality hardcovers at affordable prices.

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Preface
The Text of Pride and Prejudice
Backgrounds and Sources
BIOGRAPttY
Henry Austen·Biographical Notice of the Author
J. E. Austen-Leigh·[Beginning to Write]
Claire Tomalin·]Jane Austen's Childhood]
William Austen-Leigh, Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh, and Deirdre Le Faye·[Prospects of Marriage]
David Nokes·[Bath and Southampton]
Park Honan·[Last Years at Chawton]
LETTERS
To Cassandra Austen (9-10 January 1796)
To Cassandra Austen (14-15 January 1796)
To Cassandra Austen (18-19 December 1798)
To Cassandra Austen (3-5 January 1801)
To Cassandra Austen (12-13 May 1801)
To Martha Lloyd (29-30 November 1812)
To Cassandra Austen (29 January 1813)
To Cassandra Austen (4 February 1813)
To Francis Austen (3-6 July 1813)
To Cassandra Austen (6-7 November 1813)
To Anna Austen (10-18 August 1814)
To Anna Austen (9-18 September 1814)
To Fanny Knight (18-20 November 1814)
To Fanny Knight (30 November 1814)
To James Stanier Clarke (11 December 1815)
To James Edward Austen (16-17 December 1816)
To Fanny Knight (20-21 February 1817)
EARLY WRITING
From Love and Freindship
From A Collection of Letters
Criticism
Richard Whately-[Technique and Moral Effect in Jane Austen's Fiction]
Margaret Oliphant·[Miss Austen]
Richard Simpson·[The Critical Faculty of Jane Austen]
D. W. Harding·"Regulated Hatred": An Aspect in the Work of Jane Austen
Dorothy Van Ghent·On Pride and Prejudice
Alistair Duckworth·Pride and Prejudice: The Reconstitution of Society
Stuart Tave·Limitations and Definitions
Marilyn Butler·Jane Austen and the War of Ideas: Pride and Prejudice
Nina Auerbach·Waiting Together: Pride and Prejudice
Susan Morgan·[Perception and Pride and Prejudice]
Claudia L. Johnson·Pride and Prejudice and the Pursuit of Happiness
Susan Fraiman·The Humiliation of Elizabeth Bennet
Deborah Kaplan·Circles of Support
Tara Ghoshal Wallace·Getting the Whole Truth in Pride and Prejudice
DARCY ON FILM
Sue Birtwhistle and Susie Conklin·A Conversation with Colin Firth
Cheryl L. Nixon·[Darcy in Action]
CLASS AND MONFY
David Sprifig·interpreters of Jane Austen's Social World: Literary Critics and Historians
Edward Abeam·[Radical Jane]
Donald Gray·A Note on Money
Jane Austen: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography