Emma
New Edition
ISBN13: 9780199535521ISBN10: 0199535523
Paperback,
448 pages
Apr 2008,
In Stock
Price:
$7.95 (11)See more from the series
Description
'I wonder what will become of her!'So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing historical transition.
Written with matchless wit and irony, judged by many to be her finest novel, Emma has been adapted many times for film and television. This new edition shows how Austen brilliantly turns the everyday into the exceptional.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Features
- DT New edition of a perennial favorite and bestselling Austen title
- DT Re-set text has crisper, more attractive appearance and all the critical apparatus has been overhauled
- DT Includes new bibliography and chronology by General Editor Vivien Jones (University of Leeds)
- DT New introduction explores Austen's narrative technique to show how such things as shopping and gossip create the sense of a real community and on how everyday life reveals so much about characters and their relationships
- DT Entirely new notes, much more interesting on social and literary contexts than before
- DT Appendices on rank and social status and dancing provide a broader context in which to appreciate Austen's subtle ironies
About the Author(s)
Adela Pinch is the author of Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen (Stanford UP, 1996) and numerous articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature and culture.
