Emma
by Jane Austen
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 0140434151
- ISBN 13
- 9780140434156
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About This Item
"I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," wrote Jane Austen in planning Emma (1816).
Yet few readers have failed to enjoy the ironies of Emma's high-handed vanity, or to warm to her liveliness and wit. White she devotes her formidable energies to matchmaking between friends and acquaintances in the village of Highbury, the plot turns on a romance of which she is wholly unaware. Her own falling in love delights readers who have been anticipating it as profoundly as it perplexes Emma, who has not.
"Of all great writers, she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness," wrote Virginia Woolf of Jane Austen. This is never more true than in Emma, as Fiona Stafford discusses in her introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition.
Synopsis
Emma is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1815. The story follows the life of Emma Woodhouse, a wealthy and beautiful young woman who lives in the English countryside. Emma fancies herself as a matchmaker and sets out to find a suitable husband for her friend Harriet Smith. However, her attempts to play cupid lead to several misadventures, including a love triangle involving her own romantic interests. As the story unfolds, Emma learns important lessons about humility, love, and the consequences of meddling in the lives of others. The novel is a satire of the English upper class and is widely considered a classic of English literature.
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- Bookseller
- Fay Tsapoga (GR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14
- Title
- Emma
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140434151
- ISBN 13
- 9780140434156
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- England
- Date Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 416
- Keywords
- Literature
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