Emma
Fifth Edition
Jane Austen and Edited by John Mullan
03 March 2022
ISBN: 9780198837756
432 pages
Paperback
196x129mm
In Stock
Price: £5.99Emma is considered by many to be Austen's finest and most representative novel. The story of Emma Woodhouse's matchmaking, and her awakening to the true feelings of others as well as herself, is told with consummate wit and humour.
Description
Emma is considered by many to be Austen's finest and most representative novel. The story of Emma Woodhouse's matchmaking, and her awakening to the true feelings of others as well as herself, is told with consummate wit and humour.
- One of Austen's five major novels in a new, updated edition
- The longest and most intricately plotted of all her works, it is designed to trick the reader as well as to engage his or her powers of inference
- Includes a new introduction from John Mullan celebrating Austen's experimental use of dialogue and style, and her use of comedy
- Updated notes, chronology, and bibliography
New to this edition
- Updated notes, chronology, and bibliography
- Includes a new introduction from John Mullan
About the Author(s)
Jane Austen and Edited by John Mullan, Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, University College London
John Mullan is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has previously edited editions of Daniel Defoe's Roxana (2008) and Samuel Johnson's The Lives of the Poets (2009) for Oxford World's Classics as well as Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (2019). He is the author of The Artful Dickens (Bloomsbury, 2020), What Matters in Jane Austen? (Bloomsbury, 2012), Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Faber & Faber, 2008), and How Novels Work (OUP, 2006).
Table of Contents
- Introduction
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Jane Austen
EMMA
Explanatory Notes
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