Emma - Softcover

Austen, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1516877012 ISBN 13: 9781516877010

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Even before she began writing “Emma”, Austen indicated that she was going to write about a heroine “whom no one but myself will much like”. Emma Woodhouse, wealthy, clever and handsome is nonetheless spoiled, headstrong and blind to the dangers of matchmaking and meddling in other people’s lives. As in most of her novels, Austen writes of the problems faced by women, like herself, living in early 19th century England, creating her usual comedy of manners amongst her characters. . The novel has been adapted for several films, many television programs, and a long list of stage plays.

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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.

Review:

"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"

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1516877012
• ISBN 13: 9781516877010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 354