The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2020)
The whole novel, a short introduction, and notes at the back for the words that have changed meaning.
Some of Austen’s words meant something else in 1813. A compact edition with plain notes lets you read straight through and check only when you need to.
You want to read the novel properly once, with notes at the back for the words whose meaning has drifted.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the complete novel, in James Kinsley’s text.
Changes: nothing in the novel. Christina Lupton’s introduction, a chronology of Austen’s life, a select bibliography and explanatory notes, new in this third edition.
Whose story is it?
Elizabeth’s, start to finish.
How much time does it ask?
384 pages in paperback.
Oxford World’s Classics, third edition, 1 February 2020, 384 pages; edited by James Kinsley, introduction by Christina Lupton.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into Longbourn: Penguin Classics, ed. Vivien Jones (2002) · The Norton Critical Edition, fourth edition · The Annotated Pride and Prejudice, ed. David M. Shapard