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W. W. Norton & Company (2000), Edition: 3rd, Paperback, 424 pages
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"A perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Editions series, Pride and Prejudice is based on the 1813 first edition text, which has been thoroughly annotated for undergraduate readers." ""Backgrounds and Sources" includes biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and by biographers Park Honan, Claire Tomalin, and David Nokes. Seventeen of Austen's letters - eight of them new to the Third Edition - allow readers to glimpse the close-knit society that was Austen's world, both in life and in literature. Samples of Austen's early writing - from the epistolary Love and Friendship and A Collection of Letters - allow readers to trace Austen's growth as a writer." ""Criticism" includes eighteen assessments of the novel by nineteenth- and twentieth-century commentators, six of them new to the Third Edition, among them remarks on the recent BBC television adaptation of the novel and on the tensions and accommodations of class in Austen's work." "Also included are A Note on Money, a Chronology of Austen's life and work, and an updated Selected bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)
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LibraryThing member DameMuriel
Yes, obviously this is a good book. The Norton Critical Edition is especially good.
LibraryThing member jcelrod
Classic love story. What else is there to say?
LibraryThing member jwhenderson
This is among my favorite novels. After having stumbled through it as a teenager I have read it several times as an adult and find it a delightful and very humorous read. My most recent reading was with a group where we were able to explore our varied viewpoints on the travails of the life and love
I was impressed with the clarity and classical balance of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. From the balanced structure with three sections of almost equal length to the deliberate, yet pleasing, way that the story advances the novel seems designed to display both an intimate and timeless story with a reasonableness that does not deny the underlying emotions on display. Mr. Bennet's apparent sedate approach to life provides counterpoint to the dizzying distress displayed by Mrs. Bennet. Life's little problems (yes they are little, in retrospect), while they seem large and insoluble at the time, will work themselves out, despite the immediate concerns over whether daughters will marry. Will the young Bennet women be able to demonstrate their marriageability, much less choose among the landowners, the clergyman, the overly-proud (?) and the gamester to find fitting matches? Interweaving the misunderstanding of misplaced perspective and the imprecision of unwarranted judgements Austen has created a classic comedy of manners and marriage with a sensible narrative. Within a limited time and space she illumines both the rational and irrational in the humanity on display in this seemingly sheltered world (the turmoil of the outside world is indirectly displayed in the presence of the militia). Austen would go on to more mature demonstrations in Emma and Persuasion, but this book continues to delight the discerning reader.
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of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. D'Arcy. I was impressed with the clarity and classical balance of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. From the balanced structure with three sections of almost equal length to the deliberate, yet pleasing, way that the story advances the novel seems designed to display both an intimate and timeless story with a reasonableness that does not deny the underlying emotions on display. Mr. Bennet's apparent sedate approach to life provides counterpoint to the dizzying distress displayed by Mrs. Bennet. Life's little problems (yes they are little, in retrospect), while they seem large and insoluble at the time, will work themselves out, despite the immediate concerns over whether daughters will marry. Will the young Bennet women be able to demonstrate their marriageability, much less choose among the landowners, the clergyman, the overly-proud (?) and the gamester to find fitting matches? Interweaving the misunderstanding of misplaced perspective and the imprecision of unwarranted judgements Austen has created a classic comedy of manners and marriage with a sensible narrative. Within a limited time and space she illumines both the rational and irrational in the humanity on display in this seemingly sheltered world (the turmoil of the outside world is indirectly displayed in the presence of the militia). Austen would go on to more mature demonstrations in Emma and Persuasion, but this book continues to delight the discerning reader.
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LibraryThing member SusannainSC
I first read this as a senior in high school (very quickly as I was suddenly changing schools, and this was part of our summer reading list, which I was getting with little notice), and have loved it ever since. Brilliantly written and detailed. Fabulous heroine (do we not all want to be Lizzie
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Bennett?). Marvelous comic relief, from Mrs. Bennett, surely the silliest mother in fiction, to the ridiculous Mr. Collins. Show Less
LibraryThing member splinfo
A book I reread every 5 years and get something new out of it everytime. LH
LibraryThing member Mary_Overton
There comes a time in every person’s life when s/he must own up to the dysfunctions within one’s own family ... and how those issues shape one’s own prejudices.
Elizabeth Bennett agonizes over the revelations in Mr. Darcy’s letter:
“She grew absolutely ashamed of herself. --Of neither
“‘How despicably have I acted!’ she cried. --”I, who have prided myself on my discernment! --I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity, in useless or blameable distrust. --How humiliating is this discovery! --Yet, how just a humiliation! --Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love has been my folly.... Till this moment, I never knew myself.’
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“When she came to that part of the letter in which her family were mentioned, in terms of such mortifying, yet merited reproach, her sense of shame was severe. The justice of the charge struck her too forcibly for denial ....
“The compliment to herself and her sister [Jane], was not unfelt. It soothed, but it could not console her for the contempt which had been thus self-attracted by the rest of her family; --and as she considered that Jane’s disappointment had in fact been the work of her nearest relations, and reflected how materially the credit of both must be hurt by such impropriety of conduct, she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.” pp. 143-144
Elizabeth Bennett agonizes over the revelations in Mr. Darcy’s letter:
“She grew absolutely ashamed of herself. --Of neither
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Darcy nor Wickham could she think, without feeling that she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd.“‘How despicably have I acted!’ she cried. --”I, who have prided myself on my discernment! --I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity, in useless or blameable distrust. --How humiliating is this discovery! --Yet, how just a humiliation! --Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love has been my folly.... Till this moment, I never knew myself.’
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“When she came to that part of the letter in which her family were mentioned, in terms of such mortifying, yet merited reproach, her sense of shame was severe. The justice of the charge struck her too forcibly for denial ....
“The compliment to herself and her sister [Jane], was not unfelt. It soothed, but it could not console her for the contempt which had been thus self-attracted by the rest of her family; --and as she considered that Jane’s disappointment had in fact been the work of her nearest relations, and reflected how materially the credit of both must be hurt by such impropriety of conduct, she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.” pp. 143-144
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LibraryThing member Nickelini
The Norton Critical Edition of Pride and Prejudice is divided into three parts:
1. The novel itself
2. Background and Sources (includes excerpts from various biographies, 17 letters that Austen wrote, and two excerpts from Austen's earlier writing)
3. Criticism (14 excerpts from important scholarly
As I've read Pride and Prejudice several times already, this time I read only the third section, which was 118 pages long. For the most part the essays were interesting and enlightening, although most of them were very academic.
Recommended for: Austen scholars and readers who want to gain more understanding of P&P.
For fans of the 1995 BBC production, I highly recommend "A Conversation with Colin Firth" by Sue Birtwhistle and Susie Conklin (Sue Birtwhistle was the producer, Susie Conklin has written other historical productions and co-wrote The Making of Pride and Prejudice, where this piece was previously published.)
I recently read The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice', which is similar to the Criticism section in the Norton. I preferred the essays in the Cambridge. However, if you're looking for some criticism and a copy of the actual novel, you can't go wrong with this Norton edition.
1. The novel itself
2. Background and Sources (includes excerpts from various biographies, 17 letters that Austen wrote, and two excerpts from Austen's earlier writing)
3. Criticism (14 excerpts from important scholarly
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essays on P&P, two essays on "Darcy on film" and three essays on "Class and Money"As I've read Pride and Prejudice several times already, this time I read only the third section, which was 118 pages long. For the most part the essays were interesting and enlightening, although most of them were very academic.
Recommended for: Austen scholars and readers who want to gain more understanding of P&P.
For fans of the 1995 BBC production, I highly recommend "A Conversation with Colin Firth" by Sue Birtwhistle and Susie Conklin (Sue Birtwhistle was the producer, Susie Conklin has written other historical productions and co-wrote The Making of Pride and Prejudice, where this piece was previously published.)
I recently read The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice', which is similar to the Criticism section in the Norton. I preferred the essays in the Cambridge. However, if you're looking for some criticism and a copy of the actual novel, you can't go wrong with this Norton edition.
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Original publication date
1813
Physical description
424 p.; 8.34 inches
ISBN
0393976041 / 9780393976045