Emma: Introduction by Marilyn Butler (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

ISBN: 067940581X

Author: Austen, Jane

Condition: New

An Everymans Library edition of Jane Austens revolutionary and inspiring novel, which is once again a major motion picture.Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse is comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other peoples lives-for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, the dangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealing Harriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. Elton-and ends with her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of lifes more intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured.Austens comic imagination was so deft and beautifully fluent that she could use it to probe the deepest human ironies while setting before us a dazzling gallery of characters-some pretentious or ridiculous, some admirable and moving, all utterly true.