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I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,' wrote Jane Austen in planning Emma(1816). Yet few readers have failed to enjoy the ironies of Emma's high-handed vanity, or to warm to her liveliness and wit. While she devotes her formi...
More >I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,' wrote Jane Austen in planning Emma(1816). Yet few readers have failed to enjoy the ironies of Emma's high-handed vanity, or to warm to her liveliness and wit. While she devotes her formidable energies to matchmaking between friends and acquaintances in the village of Highbury, the plot turns on a romance of which she is wholly unaware. Her own falling in love delights readers who have been anticipating it as profoundly as it perplexes Emma, who has not. 'Of all great writers, she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness,' wrote Virginia Woolf of Jane Austen. This is never more true than in Emma, as Fiona Stafford discusses in her introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition.
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| File Size | 1.21 MB |
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| Publisher | Penguin Classics
Penguin Group, Inc. |
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| Publish Date | 02/11/2003 |
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| Print Pages | 464 |
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| Print ISBN | 0140434151 |
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| eBook ISBN | 0786533463 |
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| Print List Price | $ 8.00 |
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| eBook List Price | $ 7.95 |
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen's life is striking for the contrast between the great works she wrote in secret and the outward appearance of being quite dull and ordinary. Austen was born in the small English town of Steventon in Hampshire, and educated at home by her clergyman father. She was d...
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Fiona Stafford
Fiona Stafford is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Somerville College, Oxford. Dr Stafford's special interests are late eighteenth century and early nineteenth-century poetry and prose, and Scottish and Irish literature.
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