Emma |
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Author:
| Austen, Jane |
Introduction by:
| Drabble, Margaret |
Afterword by:
| Jeffries, Sabrina |
ISBN: | 978-0-451-53082-0 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2008 |
Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Signet |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $5.95 |
Book Description:
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A fascinating, humorous, and timeless coming-of-age tale featuring one of Jane Austen's most memorable characters. "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition...had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." The celebrated opening of Jane Austen's
Emma introduces readers to a supremely self-assured young woman who believes herself immune to romance. By...
More Description A fascinating, humorous, and timeless coming-of-age tale featuring one of Jane Austen's most memorable characters.
"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition...had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."
The celebrated opening of Jane Austen's Emma introduces readers to a supremely self-assured young woman who believes herself immune to romance. By turns brilliant and foolish, self-aware and self-deluding, Emma "leaps from error to error," writes Margaret Drabble in her incisive Introduction, wreaking comic havoc in the lives of those around her with well-meant and ill-fated attempts at matchmaking.
The mature flowering of Austen's singular and prolific genius, Emma is a fascinating, hilarious, and timeless coming-of-age tale--the compelling story of a woman seeking her true nature and finding true love in the process.
With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble
and an Afterword by Sabrina Jeffries