The Norton Critical Edition, fourth edition
The 1813 text, with fifteen critical essays and two centuries of writers on Austen after it.
Writers have argued about Austen for two centuries. Read the novel a second time with that argument bound in.
You have read it and you want the arguments about it, bound into the same book.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the text of the 1813 first edition, with explanatory annotations.
Changes: nothing in the novel. After it: portraits of Austen by her family and two biographers, fifteen critical essays, a section of short comments from writers such as Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf and W. H. Auden, a chronology and a bibliography.
Whose story is it?
Elizabeth’s, and then the critics’.
How much time does it ask?
432 pages, edited by Donald Gray and Mary A. Favret.
Norton Critical Edition, fourth edition, edited by Donald Gray and Mary A. Favret: the 1813 text and fifteen critical essays.
Where to find it
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More ways into Longbourn: Penguin Classics, ed. Vivien Jones (2002) · The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2020) · The Annotated Pride and Prejudice, ed. David M. Shapard