Emma (Oxford World's Classics)

by Jane Austen (Author), Jane Austen (Author), Terry Castle (Introduction), James Kinsley (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.25

  Emma is Jane Austen's most characteristic work. Written with irony, wit, and faultless control, it is both a novel of intense emotional power and a comic masterpiece. This edition has a new introduction 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 novel.

• Used

  Paperback
  1987

  $3.25

• Used

  Hardcover
  1985

  $3.25

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $12.55

  Like many girls, Emma Woodhouse thinks she knows best. Her heart is in the right place - but her head isn't. Beautiful, clever and rich, she only wants to help others arrange things as she thinks they should be done. Emma has no interest in true love for herself: convinced she's just not destined to find it, she believes she must instead devote herself to playing Cupid for others. Ignoring the warnings of good family friend Mr Knightley, Emma sets out to find a husband for her favourite new companion, the lovely, shy Harriet Smith. But absolutely nothing goes to plan - and in the process, Emma has a lot of learning to do: about others, but most of all about herself.

• New

  Hardcover
  1991

  $15.58

  Emma Wodehouse has led a simple life, but during the course of this, she at last reaps her share of the world's vexations. In this comedy of manners, the heroine learns to come to terms with the reality of other people, and with her own erring nature.