Emma

Austen, Jane

Published by The Modern Library, New York, 1997

About this Item

As new condition gray cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes About Jane Austen. Illustrated front and rear endpapers. The companion volume to the A & E special presentation. First edition thus. "Elizabeth Bowen writes that Jane Austen "brought the English novel to a point nearer perfection than it has reached since." And in Emma Woodhouse, the marvelously willful heroine of Emma, she has created one of her best-loved characters. Austen wrote about the world she inhabited, the English countryside, but was never constrained by her relatively narrow canvas. She endures for modern readers because of her wonderful comic irony and her acute observations of the nuances of social interaction, beautifully rendered in pellucid prose. As Emma Woodhouse attempts to orchestrated the romantic lives of those around her, Austen expertly reveals that she may not be as much in control as she would like to believe. Emma was first published in 1816, the year before Jane Austen died. Austen herself thought that Emma was someone "no one but myself will much like." In spite of Austen's fears, the indomitable Emma Woodhouse continues to win the loyal hearts of each new generation of readers." - from the inner front jacket flap "To me, an an American critic, Emma seems the most English of English novels.it is Austen's masterpiece, the largest triumph of her vigorous art." - Harold Bloom. Seller Inventory # 002055

Bibliographic Details

Title: Emma

Publisher: The Modern Library, New York

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition