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Published: 15 May 2001
ISBN: 9780375757426
Imprint: Random House US Group
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
RRP: $19.99

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Emma

Jane Austen

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First Impressions: Indulge your inner romantic – a new collection of Jane Austen’s classic novels celebrating 250 years since her birth

Introduction by A. Walton Litz

“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, may just find herself the victim of her own best intentions.

INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE

Published: 15 May 2001
ISBN: 9780375757426
Imprint: Random House US Group
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
RRP: $19.99