Description

A fascinating, humorous, and timeless coming-of-age tale featuring one of Jane Austens most memorable characters.

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy dispositionhad lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

The celebrated opening of Jane Austens Emma introduces readers to a supremely self-assured young woman who believes herself immune to romance. By turns brilliant and foolish, self-aware and self-deluding, Emma leaps from error to error, writes Margaret Drabble in her incisive Introduction, wreaking comic havoc in the lives of those around her with well-meant and ill-fated attempts at matchmaking.

The mature flowering of Austens singular and prolific genius, Emma is a fascinating, hilarious, and timeless coming-of-age talethe compelling story of a woman seeking her true nature and finding true love in the process.

With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble
and an Afterword by Sabrina Jeffries

Author: Jane Austen
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: 01/02/2008
Series: Signet Classics
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 6.88h x 5.05w x 1.24d
ISBN: 9780451530820
Language: English