Emma
New York : Modern Library, [1995]
Format: Ebook
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Edition: 1995 Modern Library edition.
Description: 1 online resource (vi, 353 pages)
Introduction by A. Walton Litz
"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." So begins Jane Austen's comic masterpiece Emma . In Emma, Austen's prose brilliantly elevates, in the words of Virginia Woolf, "the trivialities of day-to-day existence, of parties, picnics, and country dances" of early-nineteenth-century life in the English countryside to an unrivaled level of pleasure for the reader. At the center of this world is the inimitable Emma Woodhouse, a self-proclaimed matchmaker who, by the novel's conclusion, may just find herself the victim of her own best intentions.
INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE
"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." So begins Jane Austen's comic masterpiece Emma . In Emma, Austen's prose brilliantly elevates, in the words of Virginia Woolf, "the trivialities of day-to-day existence, of parties, picnics, and country dances" of early-nineteenth-century life in the English countryside to an unrivaled level of pleasure for the reader. At the center of this world is the inimitable Emma Woodhouse, a self-proclaimed matchmaker who, by the novel's conclusion, may just find herself the victim of her own best intentions.
INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE
Subjects:
Young women -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780679641087
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