The first edition of the novel (1813).

Introductory materials and revised and expanded footnotes by Donald Gray and Mary A. Favret.

Biographical portraits of Austen by family members and— new to this edition— by Jon Spence (from Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (from The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things).

Fourteen critical essays—eleven of them new to this edition. "Writers on Austen"—a new section of brief comments by Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and others.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.