Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition, ed. Patricia Meyer Spacks
A large-format edition with notes in the margins and color pictures beside the text.
A scholar’s notes and the paintings, fashions and places of Austen’s England can sit on the same page as the novel, and slow you down in a good way.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the complete novel.
Changes: the page. Harvard’s Belknap Press sets Patricia Meyer Spacks’s notes in columns beside the text, sometimes across a whole facing page, with 74 color illustrations.
Whose story is it?
Elizabeth’s, with a scholar reading over your shoulder.
How much time does it ask?
464 pages, hardcover, 9 by 9½ inches.
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1 October 2010, 464 pages, 74 color illustrations.
Where to find it
Buy the hardcover — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Hardcover — 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