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Emma by Jane Austen (1997, Hardcover, Reprint) 
Emma by Jane Austen (1997, Hardcover, Reprint)

 
Emma by Jane Austen (1997, Hardcover, Reprint)

Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Modern Library
Publication Date: 1997-02-01
Series: Modern Library Series
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0679602577
ISBN-13: 9780679602576
Product ID: EPID1559679
Description: First published in 1816, Jane Austen's EMMA is about an unconventional heroine--and one whom Austen thought no one but herself would like. Emma Woodhouse is bright, beautiful, and rich; she is also snobbish and judgmental, and she can be...
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Synopsis
First published in 1816, Jane Austen's EMMA is about an unconventional heroine--and one whom Austen thought no one but herself would like. Emma Woodhouse is bright, beautiful, and rich; she is also snobbish and judgmental, and she can be cruel, with a tendency to interfere in other people's lives. The novel chronicles Emma's attempts to make a match between a hapless vicar who is, in fact, enamored of Emma herself, and her friend Harriet, a poor and simple young woman in love with a farmer. Unlike many of Austen's heroines, Emma is possessed of very little good sense; her absurd machinations complicate the lives of everyone involved--and, needless to say, get nowhere. Emma, however, learns from her mistakes and gains some badly needed insight into herself as she discovers her feelings for the older, steady, aristocratic Mr. Knightley. The novel moves toward a not unexpected but perfectly satisfying conclusion, and in the process introduces Austen's usual cast of amusing, pretentious, hypocritical, and/or dim-witted characters, including the appalling, nouveau riche Mrs. Elton, and Emma's widowed father, one of the most insufferable (and delightful) neurotics in literature.

Details
Publication Date:1997-02-01
Series:Modern Library Series
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:353 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:16.8 oz

Publisher's Note
Emma will be airing in February on A&E from the producer and screenwriter of the enormously popular, critically acclaimed television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. This volume features tie-in jacket artwork. 353 pp. National ads. 15,000 print.

Industry Reviews
"There are novelists, like Tolstoy and Jane Austen, who persuade us that their characters live and are complex by means of their effect upon many different people, who mirror them in the round."
Times Literary Supplement - Virginia Woolf (04/13/1916)

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