Emma |
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Author:
| Austen, Jane |
Introduction by:
| Fitzgerald, Penelope |
Series title: | Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-210030-6 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1999 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $13.00 |
Book Description:
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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. Emma (1816), is Jane Austen's comic masterpiece in which Emma Woodhouse finds her match-making skills sadly misdirected as she learns humility and self-knowledge at the same time as she discovers love. Penelope Fitzgerald's most recent novel, The...
More DescriptionEmma 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. Emma (1816), is Jane Austen's comic masterpiece in which Emma Woodhouse finds her match-making skills sadly misdirected as she learns humility and self-knowledge at the same time as she discovers love. Penelope Fitzgerald's most recent novel, The Blue Flower, was awarded the American National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1998.