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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.7
EAN num: 9781593081522
ISBN number: 1593081529
Label: Barnes & Noble Classics
Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble Classics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 544
Printing Date: December 25, 2004
Publishing house: Barnes & Noble Classics
Sale Popularity Level: 477115
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Emma, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
 
Emma Woodhouse is a wealthy, exquisite, and thoroughly self-deluded young woman who has 'lived in the world with very little to distress or vex her.'

Jane Austen exercises her taste for cutting social observation and her talent for investing seemingly trivial events with profound moral significance as Emma traverses a gentle satire of provincial balls and drawing rooms, along the way encountering the sweet Harriet Smith, the chatty and tedious Miss Bates, and her absurd father Mr. Woodhouse–a memorable gallery of Austen's finest personages. Thinking herself impervious to romance of any kind, Emma tries to arrange a wealthy marriage for poor Harriet, but refuses to recognize her own feelings for the gallant Mr. Knightley. What ensues is a delightful series of scheming escapades in which every social machination and bit of 'tittle-tattle' is steeped in Austen's delicious irony. Ultimately, Emma discovers that 'Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.'

Virginia Woolf called Jane Austen 'the most perfect artist among women,' and Emma Woodhouse is arguably her most perfect creation. Though Austen found her heroine to be a person whom 'no one but myself will much like,' Emma is her most cleverly woven, riotously comedic, and pleasing novel of manners.


Steven Marcus is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, and a specialist in nineteenth-century literature and culture. A fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Literary Studies, he has received Fulbright, American Council of Learned Societies, Guggenheim, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Rockefeller, and Mellon grants. He is the author of more than 200 publications.




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Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - EMMA
Emma (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Great Book if you like the classics as I do. Quality of the pages is very good (acid free should you wish to keep it and, smooth texture).



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