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Emma by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Emma's opening sentence, which describes the titular heroine's many advantages, is loaded with foreboding. Discomfort and vexation lie on the horizon, triggered by her penchant for matchmaking. Emma's latest scheme involves finding a suitable husband for ingenue Harriet Smith, and to that end she persua ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Emma vit avec son père, un vieil homme veuf et malade. Elle est belle intelligente et riche. Avec le mariage de sa gouvernante qui la quitte, Emma décide de s'occuper du mariage de nombre de ses relations. Sûre d'elle, elle est persuadée d'avoir les talents pour cette activité. Mais son inexpérience de ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Emma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, 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 he ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Oft-copied but never bettered, Jane Austen's Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners that follows the charming but insensitive Emma Woodhouse as she sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in the little town of Highbury. Taking the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith as her subject, Emma creates mis ...Show more
Emma by AUSTEN, JANE
Category: Fiction | Series: Flipback
Published for the first time in flipback - the new, portable, stylish format that's taken Europe by storm. 'I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all.' Beautiful, clever and rich, Emma Woodhouse thinks she knows best, particularly when it c ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
Category: Classics
Emma is wealthy, beautiful, accomplished and a self-proclaimed matchmaker. When Emma meets Harriet Smith, a young girl of unknown parentage, Emma is convinced she can find Harriet a suitable husband. But, in her quest to find Harriet the perfect match, Emma jeopardizes Harriet's happiness and, much to h ...Show more
Emma by JANE AUSTEN
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse delights in interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences tha ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics Ser.
Jane Austen wrote some of the most remarkable romantic novels in English, and Emma is said to be written at the height of her powers. Like all her novels (Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility), the narrative is simple, straightforward and the story develops through seemingly commonplace convers ...Show more
Emma by JANE AUSTEN
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
Category: Classics
I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. Emma Woodhouse is certain of one thing: that she's an excellent matchmaker . . . even though she's never been in love. Emma dives into the game of finding an admirer for her newest project, Harriet Smith. But E ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
Category: Classics
Emma, par Jane Austen, 1815. Emma est un roman de la femme de lettres anglaise Jane Austen, publié anonymement (A Novel. By the author of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice) en décembre 1815. C'est un roman de moeurs, qui, au travers de la description narquoise des tentatives de l'héroïne po ...Show more