Provides notes on literary and historical contexts, allusions, and language of Jane Austen's most popular novel "Pride and Prejudice" (1813). This title explores the value and art of literary annotation. It also provides analysis of Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, Lady Catherine, and all the characters who inhabit the world of "Pride and Prejudice."

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Patricia Meyer Spacks is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Virginia.

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"Pride and Prejudice" remains Austen's most widely read book. Now, in this beautifully annotated edition, Spacks instructs the reader in a larger appreciation of the novel's enduring pleasures and provides analysis of all the characters who inhabit this work.