Emma

'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 emphasises the novel's extraordinary technical audacity. While apparently conservative in its choice of setting and range of characters, it was - and is - a formally revolutionary work.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Austen
• Assisted by: John Mullan (Editor), Mullan John (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.09.2021
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780198837756
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883775-6
• Pages: 432
• Dimensions (packing): 13 x 20 x 2 cm
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form