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Authors: Jane Austen, Donald J. Gray
ISBN-13: 9780393976045, ISBN-10: 0393976041
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: October 2000
Edition: 3rd Edition

Author Biography: Jane Austen

Jane Austen's delightful, carefully wrought novels of manners remain surprisingly relevant, nearly 200 years after they were first published. Her novels -- Pride and Prejudice and Emma among them -- are those rare books that offer us a glimpse at the mores of a specific period while addressing the complexities of love, honor, and responsibility that still intrigue us today.

Book Synopsis

The text of Pride and Prejudice is the 1813 first edition text.

Library Journal

Austen is the hot property of the entertainment world with new feature film versions of Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility on the silver screen and Pride and Prejudice hitting the TV airwaves on PBS. Such high visibility will inevitably draw renewed interest in the original source materials. These new Modern Library editions offer quality hardcovers at affordable prices.

	Preface	vii
	The Text of Pride and Prejudice	1
	Backgrounds and Sources
	Biography
	Biographical Notice of the Author	257
	[Beginning to Write]	259
	[Jane Austen's Childhood]	261
	[Prospects of Marriage]	262
	[Bath and Southampton]	264
	[Last Years at Chawton]	267
	Letters
	To Cassandra Austen (9-10 January 1796)	270
	To Cassandra Austen (14-15 January 1796)	271
	To Cassandra Austen (18-19 December 1798)	271
	To Cassandra Austen (3-5 January 1801)	271
	To Cassandra Austen (12-13 May 1801)	272
	To Martha Lloyd (29-30 November 1812)	272
	To Cassandra Austen (29 January 1813)	273
	To Cassandra Austen (4 February 1813)	273
	To Francis Austen (3-6 July 1813)	274
	To Cassandra Austen (6-7 November 1813)	274
	To Anna Austen (10-18 August 1814)	275
	To Anna Austen (9-18 September 1814)	276
	To Fanny Knight (18-20 November 1814)	276
	To Fanny Knight (30 November 1814)	278
	To James Stanier Clarke (11 December 1815)	279
	To James Edward Austen (16-17 December 1816)	279
	To Fanny Knight (20-21 February 1817)	280
	Early Writing
	From Love and Freindship	281
	From A Collection of Letters	283
	Criticism
	[Technique and Moral Effect in Jane Austen's Fiction]	289
	[Miss Austen]	291
	[The Critical Faculty of Jane Austen]	293
	"Regulated Hatred": An Aspect in the Work of Jane Austen	296
	On Pride and Prejudice	299
	Pride and Prejudice: The Reconstitution of Society	306
	Limitations and Definitions	315
	Jane Austen and the War of Ideas: Pride and Prejudice	319
	Waiting Together: Pride and Prejudice	326
	[Perception and Pride and Prejudice]	338
	Pride and Prejudice and the Pursuit of Happiness	348
	The Humiliation of Elizabeth Bennet	356
	Circles of Support	368
	Getting the Whole Truth in Pride and Prejudice	376
	Darcy on Film
	A Conversation with Colin Firth	384
	[Darcy in Action]	389
	Class and Money
	Interpreters of Jane Austen's Social World: Literary Critics and Historians	392
	[Radical Jane]	399
	A Note on Money	403
	Jane Austen: A Chronology	407
	Selected Bibliography	409

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