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Emma

The Collector's Edition
By Jane Austen
Series: The Cambridge Jane Austen
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Jane Austen's stylish masterpiece, Emma, is a brilliant psychological comedy about the mind's deception of itself. It speaks to the tedium of family and social existence, yet does so in a sparkling, utterly beguiling manner. An 'imaginist' and a snob, the heroine Emma inhabits a comical... Read More
Format: Hardback
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Jane Austen's stylish masterpiece, Emma is a brilliant psychological comedy about the mind's deception of itself. It speaks to the tedium of family and social existence, yet does so in a sparkling, utterly beguiling manner. Explanatory endnotes illuminate cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.

Emma is Jane Austen's stylish masterpiece. A comedy brilliantly depicts self-entitlement and snobbery alongside kindness and community.

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Jane Austen's stylish masterpiece, Emma, is a brilliant psychological comedy about the mind's deception of itself. It speaks to the tedium of family and social existence, yet does so in a sparkling, utterly beguiling manner.

An 'imaginist' and a snob, the heroine Emma inhabits a comical world of secrecy, illusion and fantasies. Living a claustrophobic life in which she is always significant, Emma persuades herself that marriage is unnecessary for her. Instead, she employs her charm and position to manoeuvre others, until she learns the truth about herself and her needs.

A sharp portrait of entitlement and snobbery, Emma is simultaneously a story of family kindness and of a nurturing village community more fully realised in this novel than in any other Austen work. Prefaces and explanatory endnotes supplied by Janet Todd illuminate the cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.

Series: The Cambridge Jane Austen

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781009432719

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 May 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Cambridge University Press

Illustration: Worked examples or Exercises

Contributors:

  • Edited by Janet Todd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 209.0mm

Weight: 650g

Pages: 480

Collections

Arts & Culture Classic Fiction General Fiction Jane Austen Literary Fiction Non-Fiction Series: The Cambridge Jane Austen

About the Author

Janet Todd is a critic, editor, novelist and biographer of Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters, and Irish pupils. Her latest novel is Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden (2024. Todd taught at Rutgers, UEA, Glasgow and Aberdeen. A former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she is now an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College.

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