Emma

Commemorative Edition of Jane Austen's Emma.

A masterpiece of 19th-century narrative and one of Jane Austen's great novels, Emma tells the story of an intelligent and industrious young woman determined to play matchmaker for all her friends. When her governess, friend, and confidante decides to marry, Emma Woodhouse is left alone with her own feelings and faces the emptiness of her life and the painful task of trying to make others lead a life as perfect as her own. All her efforts at sentimental manipulation create a web of entanglements, misunderstandings, and confusions around her that test her own self-confidence. An exquisite novel and a splendid portrait of provincial England in the early 19th century, Emma is an enduring work, and its protagonist holds one of the places of honor in the gallery of unforgettable heroines of universal literature.

"Jane Austen is a mistress of drawing emotions deeper than those that superficially appear. She stimulates us to add what is not there."

Virginia Woolf