Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition

Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition by literary scholar and Five Books interviewee Patricia Meyer Spacks is an in-depth look at Pride and Prejudice. As she points out in the introduction, there is no need to understand the difference between a ‘curricle’ and a ‘gig’ to enjoy Pride and Prejudice, but if you are interested, this book is a good way to find out any and all such details.

The book, according to the author

“I’ve just produced an annotated edition with some 2,000 annotations. When I was asked to annotate it, I wasn’t very enthusiastic about the idea. I was finally persuaded because I thought I could annotate it out of my head – I know the book practically by heart. I was so wrong. Reading it while thinking about what one might want to know in order to understand it better, I found out so many new things and realised, really for the first time, what a complex novel it is.”

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