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Emma (Cover to Cover Classics)
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Emma (Cover to Cover Classics) Unknown - 2006

by Austen, Jane


Summary

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The most perfect of Jane Austen's perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people's lives--for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, the dangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealing Harriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. Elton--and ends with her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of life's more intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured.Jane Austen's comic imagination was so deft and beautifully fluent that she could use it to probe the deepest human ironies while setting before us a dazzling gallery of characters--some pretentious or ridiculous, some admirable and moving, all utterly true.From the Hardcover edition.

From the publisher

Always the matchmmaker, Emma has arranged successful relationships among her friends and acquaintances time and time again, but when she must find her own mate, she soon discovers unanticipated inadequacies in her romantic capacities. The bulk of Emma, widely regarded as the most accomplished of Jane Austen's six novels, is the story of how Emma learns to seize true love. Noted for its understatement and irony, Austen's honest yet gentle prose is expertly handled by AudioFile Earphones Award winner Prunella Scales.

Details

  • Title Emma (Cover to Cover Classics)
  • Author Austen, Jane
  • Binding unknown
  • Edition Unabridged
  • Publisher The Audio Partners, Cover to Cover, Auburn, California, U.S.A.
  • Date May 28, 2006
  • ISBN 9781572705326