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Emma

Name: Emma
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Author: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780307386847

By Jane Austen

By Jane Austen
Introduction by A. Walton Litz

By Jane Austen

By Jane Austen
Introduction by Marilyn Butler

By Jane Austen

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Part of Everyman’s Library Classics Series

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Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

Paperback $9.95

Sep 04, 2007 | ISBN 9780307386847

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May 08, 2001 | ISBN 9780375757426

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About Emma

The most perfect of Jane Austen’s perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people’s lives—for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, the dangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealing Harriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. Elton—and ends with her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of life’s more intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured.

Austen’s comic imagination was so deft and beautifully fluent that she could use it to probe the deepest human ironies while setting before us a dazzling gallery of characters—some pretentious or ridiculous, some admirable and moving, all utterly true.

About Emma

Introduction by A. Walton Litz

“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.” So begins Jane Austen’s comic masterpiece Emma. In Emma, Austen’s prose brilliantly elevates, in the words of Virginia Woolf, “the trivialities of day-to-day existence, of parties, picnics, and country dances” of early-nineteenth-century life in the English countryside to an unrivaled level of pleasure for the reader. At the center of this world is the inimitable Emma Woodhouse, a self-proclaimed matchmaker who, by the novel’s conclusion, may just find herself the victim of her own best intentions.

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About Emma

Emma, first published in 1816, was written when Jane Austen was at the height of her powers. In a novel remarkable for its sparkling wit and modernity, Austen presents readers with two of literature’s greatest comic creations—the eccentric Mr. Woodhouse and that quintessential bore, Miss Bates. Here, too, we have what may well be Jane Austen’s most profound characterization: the witty, imaginative, self-deluded Emma, a heroine the author declared “no one but myself will much like,” but who has been much loved by generations of readers. Delightfully funny, full of rich irony, Emma is regarded as one of Jane Austen’s finest achievements.

About Emma

The most perfect of Jane Austen’s perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people’s lives–for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, the dangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealing Harriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. Elton–and ends with her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of life’s more intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured.

Jane Austen’s comic imagination was so deft and beautifully fluent that she could use it to probe the deepest human ironies while setting before us a dazzling gallery of characters–some pretentious or ridiculous, some admirable and moving, all utterly true.

About Emma

The most perfect of Jane Austen’s perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people’s lives–for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, the dangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealing Harriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. Elton–and ends with her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of life’s more intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured.

Jane Austen’s comic imagination was so deft and beautifully fluent that she could use it to probe the deepest human ironies while setting before us a dazzling gallery of characters–some pretentious or ridiculous, some admirable and moving, all utterly true.

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Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on… More about Jane Austen

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Product Details

Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

Paperback | $9.95
Published by Vintage
Sep 04, 2007 | 512 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307386847

Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

Paperback | $9.00
Published by Modern Library
May 08, 2001 | 384 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375757426

Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
Published by Bantam Classics
Jan 01, 1984 | 432 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553212730

Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

Hardcover | $22.00
Published by Everyman’s Library
Nov 26, 1991 | 552 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679405818

Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

Ebook | $1.99
Published by Bantam Classics
Dec 30, 2003 | 432 Pages | ISBN 9780553898354

Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

Ebook | $2.99
Published by Modern Library
Oct 31, 2000 | 384 Pages | ISBN 9780679641087

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Praise

"Jane Austen is my favorite author! … Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers." —EM Forster