Emma (unabridged, 12 CDs)

Austen, Jane

ISBN 10: 1408427168 ISBN 13: 9781408427163

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoiled, vain, and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village, but her attempts at matchmaking lead to misunderstandings and potential heartbreak. Only her friend and neighbor Mr. Knightley dares to point out the mistakes she is making and encourages her to change her ways. Considered by many to be the best English novel, Emma is at once a charming love story, a detective story, and a comic and lively portrait of English life two hundred years ago. Emma is now a major BBC television series starring Romola Garai, Jonny Lee Miller, and Michael Gambon. Jenny Agutter reads Jane Austen’s classic novel, complete and unabridged.

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Product Description:

Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Woodhouse Emma organises the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village, but her attempts at matchmaking lead to misunderstandings and potential heartbreak. Only her friend and neighbour Mr Knightley dares to point out the mistakes she is making and encourages her to change her ways.

Review:

"I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of return; it would do her good," remarks one of Jane Austen's characters in Emma.

Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and sparkling ironies of Jane Austen's masterpiece, her comedy of a sentimental education through which Emma discovers a capacity for love and marriage.

About this edition

• Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1408427168
• ISBN 13: 9781408427163
• Binding: Audio CD
• Number of pages: 12