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Emma

By Jane Austen
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Emma follows the lively and wilful Emma Woodhouse as she endeavours to find a suitable husband for her friend Harriet, only to discover that she misjudges both others and herself. Through Emma's charming misadventures and social blunders, Jane Austen presents a sharp, witty portrayal of a small English town in transition, filled with unforgettable characters.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers who enjoy classic British literature, romantic comedy, and keen social observation. Suitable for those who appreciate incisive wit and character-driven stories set in Regency England.

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Emma is considered by many to be Austen's finest and most representative novel. The story of Emma Woodhouse's matchmaking, and her awakening to the true feelings of others as well as herself, is told with consummate wit and humour.

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I wonder what will become of her!

So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart.

As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing historical transition.

Written with matchless wit and irony, judged by many to be her finest novel, Emma has been adapted many times for film and television. This new edition emphasises the novel's extraordinary technical audacity. While apparently conservative in its choice of setting and range of characters, it was—and is—a formally revolutionary work.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780198837756

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 March 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Edition: 5th Revised edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by John Mullan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 298g

Pages: 432

Collections

Classic Fiction Education & Reference Fiction General Fiction Jane Austen Literary Fiction Series: Oxford World's Classics

About the Author

John Mullan is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has previously edited editions of Daniel Defoe's Roxana (2008) and Samuel Johnson's The Lives of the Poets (2009) for Oxford World's Classics as well as Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (2019). He is the author of The Artful Dickens (Bloomsbury, 2020), What Matters in Jane Austen? (Bloomsbury, 2012), Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Faber & Faber, 2008), and How Novels Work (OUP, 2006).

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