The Annotated Pride and Prejudice, ed. David M. Shapard
The novel with an annotation for nearly everything: money, carriages, manners, entails.
Half the jokes and all the stakes depend on things Austen’s first readers knew and we don’t, so explain them on the page, as you read.
You want every reference explained as you read it, from incomes to carriages, and you do not mind carrying 816 pages.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the complete novel.
Changes: the size. David M. Shapard’s revised and expanded edition carries thousands of annotations, with maps and illustrations of the places and objects in the book.
Whose story is it?
Elizabeth’s, with her whole world explained around her.
How much time does it ask?
816 pages in Anchor’s paperback.
Anchor, “A Revised and Expanded Edition,” 13 November 2012, 816 pages.
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 Oxford World’s Classics edition (2020) · The Norton Critical Edition, fourth edition