Emma Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 1947488708 ISBN-13: 9781947488700 Publisher: Hoffmann & Hoffmann OUR PRICE: $30.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - General - Fiction | Classics |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 810 |
Physical Information: 1.13" H x 5" W x 8" (1.37 lbs) 456 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. 2] The novel was first published in December 1815, with its title page listing a publication date of 1816. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England. Emma is a comedy of manners, and depicts issues of marriage, sex, age, and social status. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." 3] In the first sentence, she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition... and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." 4] Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray. |