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Emma
Jane Austen
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Description for Emma
Paperback. Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 370.
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'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer
Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW MOTION
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099511168
SKU
V9780099511168
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About Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16th December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath and then to Chawton in Hampshire. She wrote from a young age and Pride and Prejudice was begun when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions. It was initially rejected by the published she submitted it too and eventually published in 1813 after much revision. All four of her novels published in her lifetime were published anonymously. Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously.
Reviews for Emma
Austen's characters are unquestionably one key to her greatness. Her understanding of the human heart is forensic and also frosted with the necessary detachment that gives deeper meaning to her rendering of human frailty.. In Emma, Jane Austen shows us the halting development of an adolescent girl from perky narcissism to something approaching empathy
Guardian
It is the cleverest of books. I especially love the dialogue - every speech reveals the characters' obsessions and preoccupations, yet it remains perfectly natural...absolutely gripping
Susannah Clarke Jane Austen is my favourite author! Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers
E.M. Forster The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste
Virginia Woolf Like Irvine Welsh, I am a great admirer of Jane Austen
Alexander McCall Smith For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all else, the work of Jane Austen is the Rosetta Stone of literature
Anna Quindlen How could these novels ever seem remote...the gaiety is unextinguished today, the irony has kept its bite, the reasoning is still sweet, the sparkle undiminished, as comedies they are irresistibly and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be
Eudora Welty That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with
Sir Walter Scott I'd like to write a play as perfect as Emma
Simon Gray
Guardian
It is the cleverest of books. I especially love the dialogue - every speech reveals the characters' obsessions and preoccupations, yet it remains perfectly natural...absolutely gripping
Susannah Clarke Jane Austen is my favourite author! Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers
E.M. Forster The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste
Virginia Woolf Like Irvine Welsh, I am a great admirer of Jane Austen
Alexander McCall Smith For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all else, the work of Jane Austen is the Rosetta Stone of literature
Anna Quindlen How could these novels ever seem remote...the gaiety is unextinguished today, the irony has kept its bite, the reasoning is still sweet, the sparkle undiminished, as comedies they are irresistibly and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be
Eudora Welty That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with
Sir Walter Scott I'd like to write a play as perfect as Emma
Simon Gray