- Published: 1 December 2010
- ISBN: 9781407090580
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 512
Emma
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- Published: 1 December 2010
- ISBN: 9781407090580
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 512
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.. In Emma, Jane Austen shows us the halting development of an adolescent girl from perky narcissism to something approaching empathy
Guardian
For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all else, the work of Jane Austen is the Rosetta Stone of literature
Anna Quindlen
How could these novels ever seem remote...the gaiety is unextinguished today, the irony has kept its bite, the reasoning is still sweet, the sparkle undiminished, as comedies they are irresistibly and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be
Eudora Welty
I'd like to write a play as perfect as Emma
Simon Gray
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
Jane Austen is my favourite author! Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers
E.M. Forster
Like Irvine Welsh, I am a great admirer of Jane Austen
Alexander McCall Smith
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
The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste
Virginia Woolf
As Austen fans, we often imagine ourselves living between the pages of our favourite stories. With the help of this quiz, you can find out which book you'd be transported to.
