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  • Published: 2 January 2008
  • ISBN: 9780451530820
  • Imprint: Signet
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $15.99

Emma




The 200th Anniversary Edition of Jane Austen's classic novel.

A fascinating, humorous, and timeless coming-of-age tale featuring one of Jane Austen's most memorable characters.

“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition…had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”

The celebrated opening of Jane Austen’s Emma introduces readers to a supremely self-assured young woman who believes herself immune to romance. By turns brilliant and foolish, self-aware and self-deluding, Emma “leaps from error to error,” writes Margaret Drabble in her incisive Introduction, wreaking comic havoc in the lives of those around her with well-meant and ill-fated attempts at matchmaking. 

The mature flowering of Austen’s singular and prolific genius, Emma is a fascinating, hilarious, and timeless coming-of-age tale—the compelling story of a woman seeking her true nature and finding true love in the process.

With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble
and an Afterword by Sabrina Jeffries

  • Published: 2 January 2008
  • ISBN: 9780451530820
  • Imprint: Signet
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $15.99

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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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Praise for Emma

Praise for Jane Austen

"My favorite writer is Jane Austen, and I've read all her books so many times I've lost count." --J. K. Rowling

"A great novelist." --Anthony Trollope

"A talent for describing the involvement and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with." --Sir Walter Scott

"A great artist, equal in her small sphere to Shakespeare." --Alfred Lord Tennyson

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