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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Volume IV: Emma (Oxford Illustrated Austen)

by Jane Austen

Published: 1933-12-31
Hardcover : 521 pages

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Emma (1816), is Jane Austen's comic masterpiece in which Emma Woodhouse finds her match-making skills sadly misdirected as she learns humility and self-knowledge at the same time as she discovers love. This edition features a new Introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald which examines the pleasure
given by Emma's reassuringly stable world as well as by its comedy, and examines the relationships, imagery, and continuing power of Austen's last and perhaps greatest novel.

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"Emma: Not Our Favorite Austen Book"by Heather B. (see profile) 09/15/08

Emma brought out some good discussion among newer members of our group. There is always much to talk about with a Jane Austen novel. The consensus was that Emma wasn't really our favorite A... (read more)

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