Emma

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Random House Publishing Group, Dec 30, 2003 - Fiction - 432 pages

An Everyman’s Library edition of Jane Austen’s revolutionary and inspiring novel, which is once again a major motion picture.

Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse is comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people’s lives—for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, the dangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealing Harriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. Elton—and ends with her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of life’s more intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured.

Austen’s comic imagination was so deft and beautifully fluent that she could use it to probe the deepest human ironies while setting before us a dazzling gallery of characters—some pretentious or ridiculous, some admirable and moving, all utterly true.

 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
19
Section 3
28
Section 4
33
Section 5
47
Section 6
58
Section 7
84
Section 8
115
Section 18
226
Section 19
231
Section 20
241
Section 21
249
Section 22
263
Section 23
274
Section 24
290
Section 25
317

Section 9
120
Section 10
123
Section 11
130
Section 12
144
Section 13
154
Section 14
167
Section 15
175
Section 16
181
Section 17
206
Section 26
326
Section 27
333
Section 28
348
Section 29
367
Section 30
392
Section 31
401
Section 32
409
Section 33
419
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2003)

A. Walton Litz, American literary historian and critic, was for almost four decades a professor of English literature at Princeton University. He is the author or editor of more than twenty collections of literary criticism.

Bibliographic information

TitleEmma
Bantam classic
AuthorJane Austen
Editionreprint
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group, 2003
ISBN0553898353, 9780553898354
Length432 pages
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