Emma - Couverture souple

Austen, Jane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9380005261 ISBN 13 : 9789380005263

Editeur : Maple Press Pvt Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

I may have lost my heart, but not my selfcontrol." Most interesting of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma is the most flawed, the most infuriating and the most endearing. With a wisp of gentle satire on provincial balls and drawing rooms, Emma wanders along the way encountering the sweet Harriet Smith, the chatty Miss Bates, and her absurd father Mr. Woodhouse. Resisting to romance of all kinds, she fails to recognize her own feelings. Wrapped in genteel comedy of manners, the novel encapsulates fascinating episodes of Emma's meddling and her overestimation as a matchmaker garnished in Austen's delicious irony, thus rightly entitling Jane Austen as 'Prose Shakespeare'.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction set among the gentry earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics. Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about 35 years old. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she tried then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it. Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the eighteenth century and are part of the transition to nineteenth-century realism. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the twentieth century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a Janeite fan culture.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Emma Woodhouse, rich, pretty and single, is a self-declared matchmaker who is determined to provide her friends with spouses. So busy directing the hearts of others, she has no time to examine her own, but romance is waiting to catch her unawares. Jane Austen said Emma would be a heroine that “no one but myself will much like,” however, this amusing story with its vivid dialogue and unexpected plot twists has long been a favorite among Austen fans.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Maple Press Pvt Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9380005261
• ISBN 13: 9789380005263
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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