Emma

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Description

Discover the classic story behind the major new film’Jane Austen’s Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility’ Observer Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances’ love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW MOTION

Additional information

Weight 0.36 kg
Dimensions 3.8 × 13 × 19.6 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

512

Publisher

Year Published

2007-8-30

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099511169

About The Author

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16th December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath and then to Chawton in Hampshire. She wrote from a young age and Pride and Prejudice was begun when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions. It was initially rejected by the published she submitted it too and eventually published in 1813 after much revision. All four of her novels published in her lifetime were published anonymously. Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously.

Austen's characters are unquestionably one key to her greatness. Her understanding of the human heart is forensic and also frosted with the necessary detachment that gives deeper meaning to her rendering of human frailty.. In Emma, Jane Austen shows us the halting development of an adolescent girl from perky narcissism to something approaching empathy

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It is the cleverest of books. I especially love the dialogue – every speech reveals the characters' obsessions and preoccupations, yet it remains perfectly natural…absolutely gripping

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