Emma /
Austen, Jane
Emma / Jane Austen - First Scholastic printing, September 2012 - New York : Scholastic, 1815 - 472 pages ; 18 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-191) and index.
Emma is a literary classic by Jane Austen following the genteel women of Georgian-Regency England in their most cherished sport: matchmaking. Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied. After a couple she has introduced gets married, she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities and, blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives, proceeds to forge ahead in her new interest despite objections. What follows is a comedy of manners, in which Emma repeatedly counsels her friends for or against their marriage prospects, absent any notice of their true emotions or desires. This story is often cited as a personal favorite of critics and literary historians, and Emma is set apart from other Austen heroines by her seeming immunity to romantic attraction.
0312079087 9780545481984
92002793
Romance --Juvenile literature
Novel --Juvenile literature
PR4034.E53 / E4 1992
823/.7
Emma / Jane Austen - First Scholastic printing, September 2012 - New York : Scholastic, 1815 - 472 pages ; 18 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-191) and index.
Emma is a literary classic by Jane Austen following the genteel women of Georgian-Regency England in their most cherished sport: matchmaking. Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied. After a couple she has introduced gets married, she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities and, blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives, proceeds to forge ahead in her new interest despite objections. What follows is a comedy of manners, in which Emma repeatedly counsels her friends for or against their marriage prospects, absent any notice of their true emotions or desires. This story is often cited as a personal favorite of critics and literary historians, and Emma is set apart from other Austen heroines by her seeming immunity to romantic attraction.
0312079087 9780545481984
92002793
Romance --Juvenile literature
Novel --Juvenile literature
PR4034.E53 / E4 1992
823/.7