Pop-up Pride and Prejudice

Random House has announced a paperback edition of its annotated version of Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice. There have been explicated versions before, but perhaps none so exhaustive as this one. Linda Bree, writing for the Jane Austen Society of North America, called the hardcover "'The Most Annotated Pride and Prejudice' ever likely to be available. David Shapard’s edition presents a parallel text, with Austen’s novel on the left-hand page and Shapard’s annotations on the right—and often the notes come close to outpacing in length the novel page to which they apply." (See the full review here.)

You can read an excerpt here. Or listen to editor David Shapard in a recent appearance on National Public Radio.