Name: Emma
SKU: 58161922
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Author: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9789356560208

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jane Austen

Publisher

Double 9 Booksllp

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2.4 cm

Weight

0.61 kg.

ISBN13

9789356560208

Synopsis "Emma"

Emma was composed between January 1814 and March 1815, and distributed in 1815. The title character, Emma Woodhouse, is sovereign of her little local area. She is wonderful and affluent. She has no mother; her particular, delicate dad forces no checks on either her way of behaving or her smugness. Every other person in the town is respectfully lower in friendly standing. Just Mr. Knightley, an old family companion, at any point proposes she wants improvement. Emma has a preference for matchmaking. At the point when she meets pretty Harriet Smith, "the normal little girl of someone," Emma takes her up as both a companion and a reason. Under Emma's bearing, Harriet denies a proposition from a nearby rancher, Robert Martin, so Emma can design one from Mr. Elton, the vicar. Unfortunately, Mr. Elton misjudges the interests and accepts Emma is keen on him for herself. He can't be brought down to think about Harriet Smith. Things are additionally shaken by the re-visitation of the town by Jane Fairfax, niece to the talkative Miss Bates; and by a visit from Frank Churchill, stepson of Emma's ex-tutor. He and Jane are subtly drawn in, however as nobody knows this, it no affects the matchmaking free for all. The couples are ultimately figured out, if not as per Emma's arrangement, essentially agreeable to her. Uninterested in marriage at the book's beginning, she cheerfully connects with herself to Mr. Knightly before its end

Jane Austen

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She was a British novelist who lived during the Georgian era. She was born in the rectory of Steventon (Hampshire). Her family belonged to the British gentry (rural nobility or agrarian bourgeoisie), a context she never left and in which she set all her works, always revolving around the marriage of her protagonist.

She has been portrayed in cinema on numerous occasions, sometimes faithfully reproduced, like the 1940 classic Pride and Prejudice directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, and other times adapted to modern times, as is the case with Clueless, a loose adaptation of Emma. Other versions include Sense and Sensibility from 1995; Mansfield Park from 2000; and Pride and Prejudice in 2004 (directed by Gurinder Chadha) and in 2005 (directed by Joe Wright). However, the most faithful and perfect version of the book Pride and Prejudice to date is the series presented by the BBC starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. The interest that Jane Austen's work continues to arouse today shows the relevance of her thought and the influence she has had on subsequent literature. Her life has also been portrayed in film with the movie Becoming Jane (2007)

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