TY  - BOOK
AU  - Austen, Jane 
TI  - Emma
SN  - 0312079087
AV  - PR4034.E53 E4 1992
U1  - 823/.7 20
PY  - 1815///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scholastic
KW  - Romance
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Novel
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-191) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -