num_pages: 359
description: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780375757426.Introduction by A. Walton Litz  “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, may just find herself the victim of her own best intentions.   INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE
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