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Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series)

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099589273

  • Length: 592  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 37mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 418g

  • RRP: £7.99

Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series)

'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer

Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW MOTION

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099589273

  • Length: 592  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 37mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 418g

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • Whatever age you are, Austen has something for you. I would go further, in fact, to assert that a reader never comes away from an Austen novel empty-handed

    Joanna Trollope

  • That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with

    Sir Walter Scott

  • I'd like to write a play as perfect as Emma

    Simon Gray

  • Austen's characters are unquestionably one key to her greatness. Her understanding of the human heart is forensic and also frosted with the necessary detachment that gives deeper meaning to her rendering of human frailty

    Guardian

  • It is the cleverest of books. I especially love the dialogue - every speech reveals the characters' obsessions and preoccupations, yet it remains perfectly natural...absolutely gripping

    Susannah Clarke

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About the Author

Jane Austen

Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.

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