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Emma
200th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
1 of 1 copy available
Now a major motion picture starring Anya Taylor-Joy
Beautiful, clever, rich—and single—Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than 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 that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen’s most flawless work.
This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition celebrates two hundred years of Austen’s beloved novel. With a beautiful cover designed by illustrator Dadu Shin and comprehensive notes drawing specially from the Jane Austen Collection at Goucher College, this is an edition to be treasured by students and collectors alike.
For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Release date
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Formats
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Kindle Book
- ISBN: 9780698408395
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780698408395
- File size: 3867 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780698408395
- File size: 4274 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 540
- Text Difficulty: 2-3
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Reviews
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January 1, 2025
The eponymous Emma is one of Austen's most polarizing characters. She is so busy deciding what is best for everyone around her that she not only misses what her very clever mind should have noticed but runs the risk of ruining her future. Emma lives with her father in the town of Highbury, practically ruling over all she surveys. Only her brother-in-law Mr. Knightley has the power to reign in her spoiled and self-satisfied behavior, and usually only for short periods of time. Meddling in others' lives leads to a great deal of trouble for both Emma and those she is trying to arrange on her neat little chessboard, and it is only after causing great harm, and suffering through a rare public moment of disapproval, that she realizes her mistakes. Austen is acute as she portrays the privileged life of Emma and the residents of the village and beyond, painting a vivid portrait of the ways in which gossip, power, secrets, and an insular, confined community operate. While the love story central to all Austen novels spools out slowly here, it is nonetheless brightly romantic, especially as the book begins to conclude. VERDICT This often less-read novel, here with annotations by Wells (English, Goucher Coll.), holds many of the strong pleasures of Austen, most centrally her keen characterizations and social observations.
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