Emma
Unabridged Large Print Edition
By
Jane Austen
This quality large print edition includes the complete, unabridged text of Jane Austen’s classic tale of good intentions gone bad in a freshly edited edition prepared by human editors. With a generous 7.44″ x 9.69″-page size, this edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design, and is not a machine-scanned text or facsimile reproduction of an older version.
Emma…
The fourth of Jane Austen’s published novels, Emma appeared in December 1815 to generally positive reviews and solid sales, following second editions of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. A lively comedy of manners, Emma is also a novel about youthful hubris and the consequences of misinterpreted romance.
As in Austen’s other novels, the unfairness of the British legal and cultural systems that left women dependent upon marriage and family for social standing and economic security is an underlying theme as Austen, with characteristic dry humor and wit, explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in the Georgian–Regency period in England.
Austen set out to create a story around “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,” and in the opening sentence introduces “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich.” But Emma is spoiled, headstrong, self-satisfied, and not quite so wise or intuitive as she believes herself to be. Having attended a wedding where she had introduced the bride and groom and given herself credit for the marriage, she concludes that she should turn her attention to matchmaking. Against advice she pursues her new interest, oblivious to the fact that her imagination often colors her perceptions and blind to the dangers of meddling in other people’s lives.
Jane Austen…
Born into a family at the lowest tier of the English landed gentry, Jane Austen (1775-1817) found modest critical and financial success in her lifetime, but by 1830 her books had been out of print for a decade when the copyrights were purchased and new illustrated editions included in Richard Bentley’s popular “Standard Novels” series. With wider exposure they gained popularity and stature and sold steadily if not spectacularly.
Throughout the 19th century Austen’s work had an admiring following among Britain’s self-proclaimed “literary elite,” but it was really not until the early twentieth century that her novels became the object of academic studies as “great literature”.
Product details
Publisher: S. M. Holden (December 22, 2016)
Language: English
Paperback: 512 pages
ISBN: 978-1541256446
Item Weight: 2.27 pounds
Dimensions: 7.44 x 1.16 x 9.69 inches
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