A lively introduction, focussing on the historical context of the compelling first-person narrative voice, and the striking physicality of the novel
Uses the authoritative Clarendon Edition edited by Jane Jack and Margaret Smith
Offers extensive and detailed explanatory notes and up-to-date Bibliography
Includes, as an appendix, the `Opinions of the Press` (as printed at the end of the Third Edition)
New to this Edition:
Introduction by Juliette Atkinson, informed by the latest critical and scholarly thinking on the novel
New and expanded Notes