Modern Library Classics
Modern Library
May 2001
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Featuring: Emma Woodhouse
384 pages ISBN: 0375757422 EAN: 9780375757297 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a
comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some
of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly
twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress
or vex her. So begins Jane Austen's comic masterpiece
Emma.
In Emma, Austen's prose brilliantly
elevates, in the words of Virginia Woolf, "the trivialities
of day-to-day existence, of parties, picnics, and country
dances of early-nineteenth-century life in the English
countryside to an unrivaled level of pleasure for the
reader. "
At the center of this world is the inimitable Emma
Woodhouse, a self-proclaimed matchmaker who, by the novel's
conclusion, just may find herself the victim of her own best
intentions.