Emma

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Jane Austen John Mullan (Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, Professor of English, University College London)

Emma

Jane Austen, John Mullan (Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, Professor of English, University College London), John Mullan

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Worlds Classics
26 May 2022

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'I wonder what will become of her!'So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel.

Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart.

As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing historical transition. Written with matchless wit and irony, judged by many to be her finest novel, Emma has been adapted many times for film and television.

This new edition emphasises the novel's extraordinary technical audacity. While apparently conservative in its choice of setting and range of characters, it was - and is - a formally revolutionary work.

By: Jane Austen, John Mullan
Edited by: John Mullan (Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature Professor of English University College London)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 5th Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 298g
ISBN: 9780198837756
ISBN 10: 0198837755
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 26 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Mullan is Professor of English 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 What Matters in Jane Austen? (Bloomsbury, 2012), Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Faber & Faber, 2008), and How Novels Work (OUP, 2006).