Emma (Collins Classics)

Emma Woodhouse arranges other people's marriages with complete confidence and no intention whatever of making one herself. Austen sets her heroine loose on a small country society and lets the matchmaking go wrong in instructive ways, until Emma is obliged to notice how much she has misread, including in herself. The comedy is sharp, the social observation sharper, and the novel turns on self-knowledge that arrives late but arrives honestly. This Collins Classics edition includes a biographical introduction to Jane Austen's life and achievements. Details that matter: • A biographical introduction covering Austen's life and literary career • A heroine certain of her judgement and repeatedly proved wrong • Country society observed with Austen's characteristic irony • A comedy of misplaced confidence resolving into genuine self-knowledge For Austen readers, students of the English novel and collectors of the Collins Classics line. Available at Boipoka.