Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1097557 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.60" h x 6.20" w x 8.50" l, 1.52 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 451 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
"I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of return; it would do her good," remarks one of Jane Austen's characters in Emma.

Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and sparkling ironies of Jane Austen's masterpiece, her comedy of a sentimental education through which Emma discovers a capacity for love and marriage.

Ashley Tauchert, University of Exeter
"This is an excellent package of well-edited text and thoughtful introduction, notes and sources. A handsome, clever and rich edition."

Devoney Looser, University of Missouri, Columbia
"Broadview Austen editions are second to none."