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Emma

Jane Austen

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Oft-copied but never bettered, Jane Austen's Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners.

Austen follows the charming but insensitive Emma Woodhouse as she sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in the little town of Highbury. Taking the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith as her subject, Emma creates misunderstandings and chaos as she tries to find Harriet a suitor, until she begins to realize it isn't the lives of others she must try to transform.

This edition is illustrated by the celebrated Hugh Thomson and includes an afterword by David Pinching.

Book Details

  • Publisher: MacMillan Collector's Library
  • Publish Date: Jul 19th, 2016
  • Pages: 592
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 6.00in - 4.00in - 1.00in - 0.60lb
  • EAN: 9781909621664
  • Categories: ClassicsRomance - Historical - VictorianLiterary

About the Author

Austen, Jane: - Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose works are among the most popular novels ever written. Her keen eye for social tension, and ear for taut, witty dialogue have delighted readers for centuries, while her novels have maintained historical importance through their analysis of the dependence of women on marriage to gain social standing and security. She has been widely adapted for both stage and screen, and continues to be among the most widely-read of late-18th-/early 19th-century writers.