Emma Jane Austen

Name: Emma By Jane Austen
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Emma by Jane Austen

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Summary

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.

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Emma by Jane Austen

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"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

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.

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Sku

GOR001278856

ISBN 13

9780099511168

ISBN 10

0099511169

Title

Emma by Jane Austen

Author

Jane Austen

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

2007-08-30

Number of pages

512

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

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Note

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us