Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters.Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the first sentence she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich." Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray.This novel has been adapted for several films, many television programs, and a long list of stage plays.
Emma Woodhouse est une jeune femme de 21 ans, orpheline de m re et vivant avec son p re dans le village de Highbury. Son occupation favorite est de jouer les entremetteuses pour ses proches. C'est dans ce but qu'elle prend sous son aile Harriet SmithMalgr qu'elle veut marier au vicaire Mr Elton. Mais Emma est une bien jeune femme qui ne conna t que peu de choses au sentiment amoureux. Elle apprendra ses d pens que son jugement en la mati re est des plus d plorable. Emma est le chef d'oeuvre jug le plus abouti de Jane Austen.
Emma Woodhouse is gorgeous, smart and wealthy ... but still single and happy being that way. Neither love nor marriage attract her. But, she takes perverse pleasure in messing with the love lives of others. Even though her trusted friend, Mr. Knightley, advised her not to, she goes ahead and tries to hook up her young friend, Harriet, with a beau of Emma's choosing. The whole thing begins to come apart and Emma Woodhouse meets her destiny. This much-loved story, with its endearing if occasionally misbehaving heroine, is another reason that readers adore Jane Austen.Do you love reading and re-reading the most popular stories ever written? But are they hard to read because of your being visually impaired or fading eyesight? You're not alone. Millions of readers still prefer the joy and comfort of holding a real book in their hands and slowly turning the pages. If that is you, then here's some good news. Welcome to your discovery of "Classics in Large Print."This new series, making use of the latest in printing methods for seniors and visually impaired readers, is making available many of the greatest books ever written.
Youthful Emma Woodhouse, whose long-time governess and friend Miss Taylor has just married Mr. Weston, takes some solace in being left alone with her aging father by claiming that she made the match herself. An old friend of the family, Mr. George Knightley, does not believe her, but in her certainty she decides that she must also marry off the young rector, Mr. Elton. Among her friends and acquaintances in the large and populous village of Highbury, she begins to notice young Harriet Smith, the pretty illegitimate seventeen-year-old who lives at Mrs. Goddard's boarding school.Determining first to improve Harriet, Emma discourages her interest in worthy Robert Martin of Abbey-Mill Farm, declares that Harriet must be from more genteel parents than his, and fixes upon Harriet as Mr. Elton's future wife.
Obra maestra de la narrativa del XIX y una de las grandes novelas de Jane Austen, Emma cuenta la historia de una inteligente y laboriosa joven empe ada en hacer de Celestina de todas sus amistades. Cuando su institutriz, amiga y confidente decide contraer matrimonio, Emma Woodhouse se queda sola con sus propios sentimientos y se enfrenta al vac o de su vida y a la penosa tarea de intentar que los dem s lleven una vida tan perfecta como la suya. Todos sus trabajos de manipulaci n sentimental crean a su alrededor una telara a de enredos, malentendidos y confusiones que ponen a prueba su propia confianza en s misma. Novela exquisita y espl ndido retrato de la Inglaterra de provincias de principios del siglo XIX, Emma es una obra imperecedera y su protagonista ocupa uno de los lugares de honor en la galer a de inolvidables hero nas de la literatura universal.
Jane Austen's classic novel Emma is given the Typo Classics treatment. As always your challenge is to see if you can read our typo-ridden version at normal speed. "..Emma wsa smiilng wtih enyjmoent, delhitged to see the resacetpble lgenth of the ste as it wsa fomirng, and to feel taht seh hda so mnay horus of unsuual feiivtsty borefe her .-Seh wsa mroe dirubsted by Mr. Knithlegy's nto dacinng tahn by ayn tinhg esle .-Three he wsa, aomng the stdaenrs-by, wehre he oguht nto to be; he ouhgt to be dacning, -nto clsasing hisemlf wtih the husnbads, and fahetrs, and wshit-pleyars, woh wree preetdning to feel an ineretst in the dacne tlil tehir rubbers wree mdae up, -so young as he lkooed -He cuold nto hvae appraeed to grateer adanatvge peahrps anhywere, tahn werhe he hda paecld hismelf. Hsi tlal, frim, upright fuirge, aomng the blkuy frmos and stopiong shoeludrs of the elerdly mne, wsa scuh as Emma flet msut darw ervey bd'yos eeys; and, exiptecng her onw pantrer, terhe wsa nto one aomng the wlhoe rwo of yunog mne woh cuold be coarpmed wtih hmi .-He mvoed a fwe setps nerear, and toshe fwe sptes wree eogunh to prvoe in hwo genamlnletike a mnnear, wtih waht natural grcae, he msut hvae dncead, wuold he btu tkae the trouble .-Whneever seh cgahut hsi eey, seh frceod hmi to slmie; btu in general he wsa lokoing gvare. Seh wehisd he cluod lvoe a barlloom betetr, and cuold lkie Frank Churchill bteetr .-He semeed often obsveirng her. Seh msut nto fltater herself taht he thuoght of her dacning, btu if he wree criciisting her behaivour, seh ddi nto feel aairfd. Trehe wsa nohting lkie flirattion beweten her and her patnrer. Tehy smeeed mroe lkie chfreeul, esay frenids, tahn loevrs. Taht Frank Churchill thoguht lses of her tahn he hda dnoe, wsa indaibtuble."
Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like."
This is a new edition of "EMMA," originally published in 1896 by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., of London, England, with an introduction by Austin Dobson and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Part of the project Immortal Literature Series of classic literature, this is a new edition of the classic work published in 1896-not a facsimile reprint. Obvious typographical errors have been carefully corrected and the entire text has been reset and redesigned by Pen House Editions to enhance readability, while respecting the original edition. Jane Austen's EMMA is-together with Pride and Prejudice-perhaps one of the finest and most popular novels ever written. It tells the story of the "Miss Dashwoods" sisters, the sensible Elinor and the passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. The reader will be delighted with this romantic suspense and with Austen's elegant narrative style, and with the story's fascinating characters and their social interactions. About the Author: Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose seminal works, inspired by her own upbringing as well as in the landed gentry, have influenced successive generations. She was the seventh child-out of eight-and second daughter of Cassandra (n e Leigh) and the Reverend George Austen. She was born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, England. Her parents were well-respected middle-class community members. Her father was the local Anglican clergyman and supplemented the family income by taking private pupils in the family home and parsonage. Her mother, Cassandra Leigh Austen, came from an aristocratic family and influenced Jane's sense of social class and self-worth. When they were young, Jane and her six brothers and sister were encouraged to read from their father's extensive library. With a romantic vein, but nevertheless a realist-known for her style and ironic humor as well as for her fascinating depiction of women's domestic roles of the early nineteenth century-Austen wrote "Sense and Sensibility" (1811), "Pride and Prejudice" (1813), "Mansfield Park" (1814), "Emma" (1815), "Northanger Abbey" (1817), and "Persuasion" (1818), all of which replete with memorable protagonists.
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful turmoil and the threats of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian
Emma is a novel by the Englishwoman Jane Austen, published anonymously (A Novel, December 1815, by the author of Sense and Sensibility and Pride) Mocking the attempts of the heroine to make meet the bachelors of his entourage the ideal spouse, painted with humor the life and problems of the provincial class wealthy under the Regency. Emma is considered by some Austrians to be her most accomplished work. Considered by Sir Walter Scott as a herald of a new kind of more realistic novel, Emma first disconcerts her contemporaries by the meticulous description of a small provincial town, where not much happens outside the events of The daily life of the community. Another essential aspect is that of the novel of learning, the learning of life by Emma herself, who, despite the vivacity of her mind, struggles so much to understand the feelings of others and her own. Other aspects of the novel, taken later, may also surprise us, such as its character of "crime novel without murder", which only a thorough re-reading allows to fully appreciate. Emma has been the subject of several translations in French, the first just one year after its publication in England. After a "forgetfulness" of a hundred years, the novel was serialized in the Journal des d bats in 1910; As is often the case in Jane Austen's French translations, the irony and the "second degree" proper to the author disappear in the adaptation that is made of it. The work has since been regularly published in French, in more or less faithful translations-adaptations.
