Crash Course Lit: Pride and Prejudice: Slyly Annotated Classics for Book Nerds
Jun 2027 · Penguin
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen deserves better than a dusty classroom edition. Crash Course brings sharp annotations, lively context, and its signature smart voice to one of the most beloved novels ever written—for students, romantics, and everyone in between.
Experience the Bennets, Bingleys, and Darcys like never before through lively annotations and accessible literary analysis. From first impressions to unexpected romance, Pride and Prejudice has delighted readers for generations. Discover the novel’s themes of love, class, reputation, family, and more. Learn how Austen uses irony to shape our understanding of her characters from the very first line and what Elizabeth Bennet really means when she rejects Mr. Darcy’s initial proposal.
Reading is made easy with annotations full of wit and personality. Unpack famous quotes, key scenes, and figures of speech while learning interesting historical, cultural, and literary context.
Featuring an introductory essay on the novel’s enduring influence as well as the fully annotated text, this book encourages readers to bring their own perspectives, observations, and insights to the work, too.
Experience the Bennets, Bingleys, and Darcys like never before through lively annotations and accessible literary analysis. From first impressions to unexpected romance, Pride and Prejudice has delighted readers for generations. Discover the novel’s themes of love, class, reputation, family, and more. Learn how Austen uses irony to shape our understanding of her characters from the very first line and what Elizabeth Bennet really means when she rejects Mr. Darcy’s initial proposal.
Reading is made easy with annotations full of wit and personality. Unpack famous quotes, key scenes, and figures of speech while learning interesting historical, cultural, and literary context.
Featuring an introductory essay on the novel’s enduring influence as well as the fully annotated text, this book encourages readers to bring their own perspectives, observations, and insights to the work, too.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen deserves better than a dusty classroom edition. Crash Course brings sharp annotations, lively context, and its signature smart voice to one of the most beloved novels ever written—for students, romantics, and everyone in between.
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Crash Course Books is a new imprint devoted to publishing nonfiction for students, classrooms, and lifelong learners. Crash Course Books is an extension of the popular Crash Course YouTube channel founded by Hank and John Green. Launched in 2012, Crash Course has published over 1,500 engaging videos on more than 50 subjects like World History, Literature, Chemistry, Psychology, and Philosophy. With its enthusiastic audience and partnerships with PBS, the National Science Foundation, and more, Crash Course has garnered 16 million subscribers on YouTube and 2 billion views.
Stephanie Insley Hershinow specializes in eighteenth-century British literature, the history and theory of the novel, experimental literature, and literary theory. She completed her PhD at Johns Hopkins and held a postdoc at Rutgers. She has received research fellowships from the Rotary Foundation and the Fulbright Program. She is the author of Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel, which asks why the eighteenth-century novel is preoccupied with naïveté—with adolescent characters that don’t grow, mature, or develop in predictable ways. She edited Jane Austen's Emma (in April 2022) and Sense and Sensibility (in August 2024) for W.W. Norton’s Norton Library series. She is currently completing a book about Jane Austen and narrative theory.
Paige Towler is an author and editor, currently working for Smithsonian Licensed Publishing and previously with National Geographic. Her books include History FACTopia!: Follow Ye Olde Trail of 40 Facts; Lost Mysteries: Secrets, Legends, and Treasures of the Past; Girls Can! Smash Stereotypes, Defy Expectations, and Make History!; and Journey Through Ellis Island, and she was the project editor and contributor for National Geographic's Poetry of US: More Than 200 Poems That Celebrate the People, Places, and Passions of the United States. She lives in Washington, DC.
Stephanie Insley Hershinow specializes in eighteenth-century British literature, the history and theory of the novel, experimental literature, and literary theory. She completed her PhD at Johns Hopkins and held a postdoc at Rutgers. She has received research fellowships from the Rotary Foundation and the Fulbright Program. She is the author of Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel, which asks why the eighteenth-century novel is preoccupied with naïveté—with adolescent characters that don’t grow, mature, or develop in predictable ways. She edited Jane Austen's Emma (in April 2022) and Sense and Sensibility (in August 2024) for W.W. Norton’s Norton Library series. She is currently completing a book about Jane Austen and narrative theory.
Paige Towler is an author and editor, currently working for Smithsonian Licensed Publishing and previously with National Geographic. Her books include History FACTopia!: Follow Ye Olde Trail of 40 Facts; Lost Mysteries: Secrets, Legends, and Treasures of the Past; Girls Can! Smash Stereotypes, Defy Expectations, and Make History!; and Journey Through Ellis Island, and she was the project editor and contributor for National Geographic's Poetry of US: More Than 200 Poems That Celebrate the People, Places, and Passions of the United States. She lives in Washington, DC.
Crash Course Books is a new imprint devoted to publishing nonfiction for students, classrooms, and lifelong learners. Crash Course Books is an extension of the popular Crash Course YouTube channel founded by Hank and John Green. Launched in 2012, Crash Course has published over 1,500 engaging vid...
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