Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Annoying and pedantic.

I had hoped that this book would be "annotated" to explain aspects of social history that are lost on us modern readers. And there's a tiny, tiny bit of that. For example, the editor explains what an entail was, and what rank Lady Catherine would have been. This is interesting.But the vast majority of the annotations, as other reviewers have noted, are explanations of words whose meanings are quite clear from context. Jane Austen was a very clean, concise writer-- so much so that 200 years on, she's still enjoyable for all ages. A recent Publisher's Weekly survey found that American teenagers identified her as their favorite dead author. *They* don't have any trouble understanding her. Her writing needs no glossing... and certainly not the tiresome, repetitive, intrusive explanations it gets in this edition.