Emma: Jane Austen (Macmillan Collector's Library, 16) - Hardcover

Austen, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1909621668 ISBN 13: 9781909621664

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2016

Synopsis

Oft-copied but never bettered, Jane Austen's Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners.

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Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful hardbacks make perfect gifts for book lovers, or wonderful additions to your own collection. Gorgeously illustrated by the celebrated Hugh Thomson, this Macmillan Collector's Library edition also includes an afterword by David Pinching.

Set in the fictional village of Highbury, Austen follows the charming but insensitive Emma Woodhouse as she sets out on an ill-fated career in match-making. Adopting the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith as her subject, Emma creates misunderstandings and chaos as she attempts to find Harriet a suitor – until she begins to realize it isn't the lives of others she must try to transform, but her own.

About this title

About the Author

Jane Austen was born in 1775 in rural Hampshire, the daughter of an affluent village rector who encouraged her in her artistic pursuits. In novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma she developed her subtle analysis of contemporary life through depictions of the middle-classes in small towns. Her sharp wit and incisive portraits of ordinary people have given her novels enduring popularity. She died in 1817.

From the Back Cover

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition

OR

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

From the Inside Flap

Oft-copied but never bettered, Jane Austen's Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners that follows the charming but insensitive Emma Woodhouse as she sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in the little town of Highbury. Taking the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith as her subject, Emma creates misunderstandings and chaos as she tries to find Harriet a suitor, until she begins to realize it isn't the lives of others she must try to transform.

Gorgeously illustrated by the celebrated Hugh Thomson, this Macmillan Collector's Library edition also includes an afterword by David Pinching.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909621668
• ISBN 13: 9781909621664
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Thomson Hugh
• Number of pages: 592