Emma
By: Jane Austen ; with a new introduction by Margaret Drabble.
Series: Virago modern classic ;
Publisher: Virago
Published: 1989
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Young women -- Fiction; Female friendship -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "With cheerful self-confidence Emma interferes in the lives and loves of all her circle. A plot as intricate as a classic detective story leaves the reader as astonished as its heroine when the true state of affairs is revealed. She arrives, almost too late, at a self-knowledge which humbles her considerably. This masterpiece of social observation and comic plotting offers inexhaustible pleasure, laughter and enlightenment." -- Back of book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi-xxii).