This volume brings together a representative selection of the best criticism that has been devoted to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Examine the novel with eight different critical essays plus an introduction by Harold Bloom. The title, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Jane Austen, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.