| Emma 1995 Edition Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679601937 ISBN-13: 9780679601937 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96121673 |
| Physical Information: 1.32" H x 5.71" W x 8.32" (1.08 lbs) 353 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, just may find herself the victim of her own best intentions. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes newly commissioned notes on the text. "From the Trade Paperback edition." |