An Everyman’s Library edition of Jane Austen’s revolutionary and inspiring novel, which is once again a major motion picture. Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse is comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people’s lives—for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, the dangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealing Harriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. Elton—and ends with her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of life’s more intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured. Austen’s comic imagination was so deft and beautifully fluent that she could use it to probe the deepest human ironies while setting before us a dazzling gallery of characters—some pretentious or ridiculous, some admirable and moving, all utterly true.
Emma: Introduction by Marilyn Butler (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
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Author: Austen, Jane
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780679405818
Details:
Author: Austen, Jane
Brand: Everyman's Library
Color: Multicolor
Edition: Later prt.
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 552
Release Date: 26-11-1991
Package Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780679405818
