Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be mar[...]

"I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like," Jane Austen wrote, but young Emma Woodhouse, in spite of her weaknesses, has charmed generations of readers. Bossy, a little spoilt, and too eager to control other's lives for what she believes is their own good, she creates misun[...]

Emma Woodhouse og hennes far hører med i byens lille krets av dannede, og Emma går en begrenset tilværelse i møte når hennes guvernante og fortrolige venninne forlater dem for å gifte seg. Det er imidlertid Emma selv som står bak guvernantens lykkelige valg. Hun har gjort det til sin oppgave [...]

Hun er rig og privilegeret og mener, at det er, som det bør være. Hun kan være ulidelig, men alligevel er hun vellidt.

Hun hedder Emma og er yngste datter af mr. Woodhouse. Da hendes mor er død og hendes søster gift og flyttet, er Emma førstedame på familieejendommen [...]

?Jag ska ha en hjältinna som ingen utom jag kommer att tycka särskilt mycket om?, skrev Jane Austen om sin roman Emma. Men där fick hon fel; många anser att Emma är Austens främsta roman. Det är på en gång en kärlekshistoria, en komedi om vem som ska få vem och en berättelse full av gåt[...]

"... en rent världsomstörtande läsupplevelse ..." Maria Sveland

Mr Knightley skakade på huvudet. Fadern svarade i tillgiven ton: "Åh, min kära Emma! Om du ändå inte vore så skicklig på att smida äktenskapsplaner. Snälla du, låt bli sådant i fortsättningen."

"Jag[...]

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy o[...]

Have you ever wondered about the hidden romance contained within Jane Austen's Emma? This literary retelling of Austen's classic novel focuses on the courtship and secret engagement of Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill. How did two people of such evidently disparate temperaments fall in love? How was[...]

What has Emma Woodhouse, "handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and very little to distress or vex her" to say to a discipline like philosophy? How is a novel like Emma, inaccurately but not infrequently caricatured as a high-toned version of a pedestrian romance, to supply material fo[...]

This collection from Everyman s Library provides the complete works of one of the most popular authors in English literature. Each of Jane Austen s masterpieces is enchantingly funny, touchingly and wittily told, and filled with a dazzling gallery of characters. These beautiful, clothbound classics [...]