Emma -- Jane Austen

<b>Introduction by A. Walton Litz</b><br> <b> </b><br> "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." So begins Jane Austen's comic masterpiece <i>Emma</i>. In <i>Emma, </i>Austen's prose brilliantly elevates, in the words of Virginia Woolf, "the trivialities of day-to-day existence, of parties, picnics, and country dances" of early-nineteenth-century life in the English countryside to an unrivaled level of pleasure for the reader. At the center of this world is the inimitable Emma Woodhouse, a self-proclaimed matchmaker who, by the novel's conclusion, may just find herself the victim of her own best intentions. <p/> INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE<br><br><b>Author:</b> Jane Austen<br><b>Publisher:</b> Modern Library<br><b>Published:</b> 05/08/2001<br><b>Pages:</b> 384<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.63lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.84d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780375757426<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 9.3<br><b>Point Value:</b> 30<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>16711 / Emma (Unabridged) (English)<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>A. Walton Litz</b>, <b> </b>American literary historian and critic, was for almost four decades a professor of English literature at Princeton University. He