Emma is about young people trying to find suitable partners and
learning to get on with each other. Emotional and sexual
attractions are present throughout, though vividly implied or
suggested rather than ploddingly gone into. The novel is also very
moral: Emma doesn't physically harm her friends, but she does
behave selfishly and thoughtlessly and hurts them - and us - quite
painfully; she then feels remorse and learns to be more
considerate: experiences which - being fairly general - are
extremely interesting to read about. No character, no sentence
could be cut out without reducing the whole. Funny, acute, and
touching, Emma is the best of Jane Austen's novels. (Kirkus UK)
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.
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes newly commissioned notes on the text.
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