Emma, who "had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her," finds her match-making skills sadly misdirected as she learns humility and self-knowledge at the same time as she discovers love in Jane Austen's comic novel. Emma (1816), is Jane Austen's comic masterpiece in which Emma Woodhouse finds her match-making skills sadly misdirected as she learns humility and self-knowledge at the same time as she discovers love. This edition features a new Introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald which examines the pleasure given by Emma's reassuringly stable world as well as by its comedy, and examines the relationships, imagery, and continuing power of Austen's last and perhaps greatest novel.
Emma, who "had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her," finds her match-making skills sadly misdirected as she learns humility and self-knowledge at the same time as she discovers love in Jane Austen's comic novel. Emma (1816), is Jane Austen's comic masterpiece in which Emma Woodhouse finds her match-making skills sadly misdirected as she learns humility and self-knowledge at the same time as she discovers love. This edition features a new Introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald which examines the pleasure given by Emma's reassuringly stable world as well as by its comedy, and examines the relationships, imagery, and continuing power of Austen's last and perhaps greatest novel.
Emma, who "had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her," finds her match-making skills sadly misdirected as she learns humility and self-knowledge at the same time as she discovers love in Jane Austen's comic novel. Emma (1816), is Jane Austen's comic masterpiece in which Emma Woodhouse finds her match-making skills sadly misdirected as she learns humility and self-knowledge at the same time as she discovers love. This edition features a new Introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald which examines the pleasure given by Emma's reassuringly stable world as well as by its comedy, and examines the relationships, imagery, and continuing power of Austen's last and perhaps greatest novel.
Emma, who "had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her," finds her match-making skills sadly misdirected as she learns humility and self-knowledge at the same time as she discovers love in Jane Austen's comic novel. Emma (1816), is Jane Austen's comic masterpiece in which Emma Woodhouse finds her match-making skills sadly misdirected as she learns humility and self-knowledge at the same time as she discovers love. This edition features a new Introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald which examines the pleasure given by Emma's reassuringly stable world as well as by its comedy, and examines the relationships, imagery, and continuing power of Austen's last and perhaps greatest novel.
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