Emma

Author(s): Jane Austen

Penguin Black Classics

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


Product Information

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. She is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey. Fiona Stafford is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Somerville College, Oxford. Tony Tanner was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Professor of English and American Literature at Cambridge.

General Fields

  • : 9780141439587
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.353802
  • : March 2015
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 22mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jane Austen
  • : Paperback
  • : 512
  • : chronology, notes