Emma
By: With an introd. by Lionel Trilling.
Series: Riverside editions, B17
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1957
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Young women -- Fiction; Female friendship -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse loves playing matchmaker. When pretty and socially inferior Harriet arrives, Emma decides to indulge her passion. Against the advice of family friend and surrogate older brother Mr. Knightly, Emma persuades Harriet to reject a marriage proposal from a local farmer in order to hold out for an offer from the dashing Mr. Elton. But Emma soon discovers Mr. Elton's true motives and her advice to Harriet goes terribly awry"--Publisher description.
Notes: "The text ... is that edited by R. W. Chapman and originally published in 1933 by Oxford University Press."