Penguin Classics, ed. Vivien Jones (2002)
The whole novel, with an introduction by Vivien Jones and the original one by Tony Tanner.
The first time through, you want Austen’s novel, one good essay to frame it, and nothing in the way.
You have never read it, and you want the complete novel with one good introduction.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the complete novel, with notes by Vivien Jones.
Changes: nothing in the text. Around it: Vivien Jones’s introduction and notes, and the introduction Tony Tanner wrote for the earlier Penguin Classics edition.
Vivien Jones edits, introduces and annotates; Tony Tanner’s introduction from the earlier Penguin Classics edition is kept. A clothbound hardcover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith is also sold.
Whose story is it?
Elizabeth’s, in Austen’s order and at Austen’s length.
How much time does it ask?
448 pages in paperback. Penguin also sells a clothbound hardcover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Penguin Classics paperback, 31 December 2002, 448 pages, edited with an introduction and notes by Vivien Jones.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Clothbound hardcover — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into Longbourn: The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2020) · The Norton Critical Edition, fourth edition · The Annotated Pride and Prejudice, ed. David M. Shapard