Edited by Stephen M Parrish (2 results)
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Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 3rd Edition. RICHLY COMEDIC: CLASSIC: NEW Third NC Trade Paperback Edition (Orig. 2000) Third Printing (c. 2012): NEW gloss-laminated handsomely-designed full-color illus. cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, EXCELLENT unblemished smooth-cut text-block exterior BUT showing s…lightest shelf-dust soiling, NEW perfect binding-UNCREASED spine, PRISTINE interior printed w/ SPLENDID Clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper w/ SUPERB presentation of footnotes & other scholarly apparatus * 5.00" x 8.36" x 0.87", 0.46 kg, xiv+449 (463) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: The text reprinted in this new edition of Austen's comedic novel is based on the 1816 text, which has been carefully edited in light of later editions, including the Chapman edition. "Backgrounds" supplies an abundance of documents that shed light on Austen's life & reveal some of her private attitudes toward her writing. "Reviews & Criticism" presents 16 wide-ranging assessments of the novel, three of them new to the Norton Critical Edition. Sir Walter Scott, George Henry Lewes, Henry James, A.C. Bradley, Reginald Farrer, E.M. Forster, A. Walton Litz, Robert Alan Donovan, Marilyn Butler, Mary Poovey, Claudia L. Johnson, Ian Watt, Maggie Lane, Suzanne Juhasz, & John Wiltshire provide critical overviews. The selection culminates w/ Suzanne Ferriss' account of the recent popular film adaptations of Emma. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: STEPHEN M. PARRISH was Goldwin Smith Professor of English, Emeritus at Cornell University, where he taught since 1954. He is author of numerous books, including "Coleridge's Dejection", "The Art of Lyrical Ballads", "Currents of the Nineties in Boston & London", Wordsworth's "The Prelude 17908-1799", & Yeats's "Wild Swans at Coole". He is General Editor of The Cornell Concordances, The Cornell Yeats Manuscript Series, & The Cornell Wordsworth, all multi-volume projects, & is coeditor of two multi-volume computer concordances to the works of Freud, one in German, the other in English * ABOUT NORTON CRITICAL EDITIONS: Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text, contextual & source materials, & a wide range of interpretations--from contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory--as well as a bibliography, &, in most cases, a chronology of the author's life & work. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via Mandatory USPS PRIORITY INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.
Language: English
Published by Odhams Press Ltd., London 1937
- Hardcover
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United KingdomRyde Bookshop Ltd
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Decorated embossed red cloth boards. Peeling, fading scuffing and marks mainly on the spine. Front inner hinge cracked. Frontispiece is nearly detached. Page 761 is detached. No jacket. A reading copy only with chipping at the top and base of the spine and a fraying split on the lower half…of the front external hinge. over 450j illustrations by well-known artists (illustrator).
