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Beautiful, clever, rich - and single Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage.Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protigie Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austin's most flawless work.This edition includes a new chronology, additional suggestions for further reading and the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner.

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Writer

Jane Austen

Language

English

ISBN

9780141439587

Number of pages

512

Publisher

Penguin UK

Category

Emma - Jane Austen

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound..