Emma
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Tags: Classics, Novel, Women's Fiction
ISBN:0192547046
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Emma Woodhouse is the self-appointed matchmaker within her small circle of friends and acquaintances. Scheming and presumptuous, however, Emma's vision for who belongs with whom often runs at cross-purposes to what would be best or to what her chosen 'clients' actually want. Indeed, Emma seeks to orchestrate several matches only to find that people have a curious way of making up their own minds. Thanks to her meddlesome ways, tangles, confusion, and hurt feelings ensue, to which even the matchmaker herself is not immune. Can Emma restore peace to her associates' lives and salvage her own reputation once things have gone so horribly awry?
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About the Author
Educated and trained in her craft largely within her family home, Jane Austen (1775-1817) developed a singularly sharp eye and keen wit for chronicling the lives, loves, and misadventures of the English gentry. Although little-read during her lifetime, Austen has since been awarded a lasting place as one of the most brilliant English women ever to put pen to paper. Austen's novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey welcome readers of all ages and eras to delight in their timeless humor and poignancy.
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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most ...
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| wendywang | | 2008-08-13 | |
| wistaria | | 2008-09-20 |
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