Emma
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- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2001
Summary
“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 Englis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375757426 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375757422 |
| Author: | Jane Austen, A. Walton Litz |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2001 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 128mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“Jane Austen is my favorite author! … Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.” -EM Forster From the Trade Paperback edition.
“Jane Austen is my favorite author! … Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.” —EM Forster
About The Author
Jane Austen
A. Walton Litz, American literary historian and critic, was for almost four decades a professor of English literature at Princeton University. He is the author or editor of more than twenty collections of literary criticism.
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