num_pages: 353
description: 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, just may find herself the victim of her own best intentions.This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes newly commissioned notes on the text.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Emma
titlecomplete: Emma
characters: Emma Woodhouse, Mr. Weston, Miss Bates, John Knightley, Mr. George Knightley, Mr. Elton, Mrs. Elton, Robert Martin, Harriet Smith, Mr. Woodhouse, Mrs. Isabella Knightley, Frank Churchill, Jane Fairfax, Mrs. Anne Weston
genres: Classics, Historical, Novels, Classic Literature, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Audiobook, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 848437
places: United Kingdom, Surrey, England, England
publisher: Modern Library