Woodhouse, Emma (Fictitious character) Fiction.
A witty satire of English society set within the customary plot: young ladies finding proper husbands.
England--Social life and customs--19th. century--Fiction.
England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction.
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman so devoted to meddling in the lives and romances of others that she may miss her chance to learn about love firsthand.
Presents a romantic fictional account of Emma Woodhouse, a clever and rich young woman with a comfortable home and a happy disposition.
The most perfect of Jane Austen's perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people's lives-for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, the dangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealing Harriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. Elton-and ends with her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of life's more intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured.Austen's comic imagination was so deft and beautifully fluent that she could use it to probe the deepest human ironies while setting before us a dazzling gallery of characters-some pretentious or ridiculous, some admirable and moving, all utterly true.
Clever, pretty, and rich, at twenty-one, Emma is content to be companion to her father. The making of a successful match for her beloved governess leads Emma to more matchmaking with surprising results.
Audio adaptations
Romance fiction
Comedy of manners, in which Emma Woodhouse, believing herself to be a gifted matchmaker, tries to order the romantic lives of her circle -- with negative consequences for those she seeks to help.
Emma thinks she knows what is best for everybody, including herself. This is one of many editions of this 1815 novel. Emma, when first published in 1816, was written when Jane Austen was at the height of her powers. In it, we have her two greatest comic creations -- the eccentric Mr. Woodhouse and that quintissential bore, Miss Bates. In it, too, we have her most profound characterization: the witty, imaginative, self-deluded Emma, a heroine the author declared "no one but myself will much like," but who has been much loved by generations of readers. Delightfull funny, full of rich irony, Emma is regarded as one of Jane Austen's finest achievements.
The story of a young woman whose personal pretensions bring her up against the constraints of English society.
Arrogant, self-willed and egotistical, "Emma" is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine. Her interfering ways and inveterate matchmaking are at once shocking and comic. She is 'handsome, clever and rich' and has 'a disposition to think too well of herself'. When she decides to introduce the humble Harriet Smith to the delights of genteel society and to find her a suitable husband, she precipitates herself and her immediate circle into a web of misunderstanding and intrigue, from which no-one emerges unchanged.
The portrait of a headstrong young woman who is dedicated to managing the lives and loves of her friends. Each failure helps her to develop eventually into a lady of compassion.
Novels
Sound recordings
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. She entangles her circle of friends into a web of misunderstanding and intrigue from which no one emerges unchanged.
Emma (abridged)
Humorous fiction
Content with her life and not interested in marriage, Emma Woodhouse, a rich and beautiful heiress, causes complications with her matchmaking schemes.
Emma [audiobook]
Emma is the story of a charmingly self-deluded heroine whose injudicious matchmaking schemes often lead to substantial mortification. Emma, "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." Her own great fortune has blinded Emma to the true feelings and motivations of others and leads her to some hilarious misjudgments. But it is through her mistakes that Emma finds humility, wisdom, and true love.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Humorous stories
Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems not only for others, but for herself as well.
A novel of Regency England that centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.
A humorous depiction of a young woman coming of age within the constraints of 19th-century English society. Emma is a delightful bundle of contradictions, at once clever and foolish, self-aware and self-deluding, the ultimate match-maker who believes herself to be immune to romance.--
Novels of manners
History
Radio plays
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Emma Classic Literature with Classical Music
Emma Woodhouse meddles in her friend's matrimonial prospects and learns a bitter lesson when her schemes backfire.
Jane Austen's engaging and infuriating heroine sparkles in this superb full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation which stars Angharad Rees as Emma.
Regency fiction
Emma, who is clever and rather smug, attempts to advance the fortunes of pretty, foolish Harriet. her enterprise offends her father's sense of property, and brings conflicts with attractive Mr. knightly.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match.
"Arrogant, self-willed and egotistial, Emma is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine. Her interfering ways and inveterate matchmaking are at once shocking and comic. She is 'handsome, clever and rich' and has 'a disposition to think too well of herself'. When she decides to introduce the humble Harriet Smith to the delights of genteel society and to find her a suitable husband, she precipitates herself and her immediate circle into a web of misunderstanding and intrigue, from which no one emerges unchanged"--Container.
A meddling matchmaker pairs couples on the basis of compatibility and social station.
Tells the story of a charmingly self-deluded heroine whose injudicious matchmaking schemes often lead to substantial mortification. Emma's own great fortune has blinded her to the true feelings and motivations of others and leads her to some hilarious misjudgments. But it is through her mistakes that Emma finds humility, wisdom, and true love.
Talking books
Dokumenty dźwiękowe
Beschrijving van leven en karakter van een jong, intelligent en zelfbewust meisje uit de gegoede middenstand in Engeland omstreeks 1800.
Emma takes upon herself the organization of other people's emotions. Her forays into matchmaking are ill-judged and lead to misunderstanding, distress, and the annoyance of her eligible neighbor, Mr. Knightley.
The story of a rich, clever, and beautiful young woman who can't resist orchestrating other people's love lives.
Domestic fiction
Emma is used to ruling over the social lives of those living in Highbury, but she has a lesson to learn about trying to co-ordinate other people's lives and actions a little too much. Emma is an exquisitely crafted portrait of late 18th century society, generally considered to be Austen's most accomplished work. Set within the confines of a Surrey village it casts a penetrating but amusing eye on the polite, sometimes claustrophobic life of the local inhabitants. Memorable characters include Emma Woodhouse, self-appointed an meddling matchmaker who stands to lose out on love herself, social climbing vicar Mr Elton, and desirable bachelor Mr. Knightley.
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegee, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometime with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find it is all to easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification.
"The funny and heartwarming story of a young lady whose zeal, snobbishness and self-satisfaction lead to several errors in judgment. Emma takes Harriet Smith, a parlour boarder and unknown, under her wing and schemes for advancement through a good marriage. The attempts at finding Harriet a suitor occupy all of Emma's time. However, in the midst of the search she settles on a most unlikely union with her own constant critic: Mr. Knightly"--Container.
Emma
Austen's novel follows the adventures of the priviledged and accomplished Emma Woodhouse, who, at almost twenty-one, is used to having her own way. Billington's sequal finds Emma, after a year of marriage, content but also restless and in a quest for perfect happiness.
Follows the adventures of the self-assured and accomplished Emma, a twenty-one-year-old girl of privilege who believes she is immune to romance and has several chaotic and often humorous experiences.
Historical fiction
Emma, a self-assured young lady in Regency England, is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable house 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. With this opening sentence, a reader might seem quite justified in thinking Jane Austen to have painted herself into a corner ... What could possibly happen from here? In Austen's comedic masterpiece, however, Emma fancies herself a superb judge of human character and becomes entrenched in the amorous affairs of her friends. In doing so, she remains oblivious to her own romantic possibilities, and the resulting comical misunderstandings are highly entertaining. This book is the acme of Jane Austen's work, wry and funny all at the same time.
Downloadable audio books
First published in 1816 and considered one of Jane Austen's finest works, Emma is a humorous portrayal of a heroine whose injudicious interferences in the life of a young parlour-boarder in a neighboring village often lead to substantial mortification. Austen brings to life a myriad of engaging characters and presents a mixture of social classes as she did in Pride and Prejudice. Her two greatest comic characters are part of Emma's machinations-the eccentric Mr. Woodhouse and the quintessential bore, Miss Bates. Delightfully funny, Emma displays the shrewd wit and delicate irony which made Jane Austen a master of the English novel. Although Austen thought that only she would like her witty, fanciful, self-deluded heroine, Emma has gained the affection of generations of readers.
In Jane Austen's comic masterpiece, the inimitable Emma Woodhouse, a self-proclaimed matchmaker, just may find herself the victim of her own best intentions by the novel's conclusion.
Emma [electronic resource]
Anna Dereszowska czyta Emmę Jane Austen
Emma Woodhouse meddles in her friend's matrimonial prospects and learns a bitter lesson when her schemes back fire.
Capable and clever Emma knows what is best for everyone. Whatever doesn't quite measure up in her sparkling universe can be easily rearranged. But life becomes much less manageable when one of Emma's matchmaking schemes goes terribly awry, and the least expected happens--she falls in love.
Emma Woodhouse is handsome, clever and rich. Unfortunately she is also self-opinionated, insensitive and meddlesome. Used to getting her own way, she is careless of other peoples' lives, recklessly matchmaking without heed of the consequences. When her irresponsible plans misfire, she is forced to examine her own conduct.
Fiction
"Arrogant, self-willed and egotistial, Emma is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine. Her interfering ways and inveterate matchmaking are at once shocking and comic. She is 'handsome, clever and rich' and has 'a disposition to think too well of herself'. When she decides to introduce the humble Harriet Smith to the delights of genteel society and to find her a suitable husband, she precipitates herself and her immediate circle into a web of misunderstanding and intrigue, from which no one emerges unchanged" -- Container.
Beschrijving van leven en karakter van een jong, intelligent en zelfbewust meisje uit de gegoede middenstand in Engeland omstreeks 1800. Met informatie over de auteur en de tijd waarin ze leefde, verschillende oefeningen en woordverklaringen in het Engels.
Electronic books
Ljudböcker
A classical example of Jane Austen's writing, read by Jill Masters.
The story of a young woman whose personal pretensions bring her up against the constraints of English society. Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
The most perfect of Jane Austen's perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people's lives - for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, the dangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealing Harriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. Elton--and ends with her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of life's more intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured.
Drama
Perfect happiness
MP3 (Audio coding standard)
Jane Austen : classic BBC radio productions
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Love stories
Beautiful Emma Woodhouse attempts to manipulate the lives and romances of those around her.
Arrogant, self-willed and egotistical, Emma is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine. Her interfering ways and inveterate matchmaking are at once shocking and comic. She is 'handsome, clever and rich' and has 'a disposition to think too well of herself'. When she decides to introduce the humble Harriet Smith to the delights of genteel society and to find her a suitable husband, she precipitates herself and her immediate circle into a web of misunderstanding and intrigue, from which no-one emerges unchanged.
Powieść angielska
First published in 1816, Emma is Jane Austen's classic comic novel about a lively, intellectual twenty-one year old girl who lives with her wealthy father. Despite her intelligence, Emma Woodhouse has little to do and is often quite weary of her empty everyday life. Having few companions of her own age, Emma often entertains herself by attempting to make matches between those around her.
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman so eager to manage other people's lives that she fails, for a long time to realise where her own true happiness lies.
Audiobooks, Fiction
Emma Woodhouse is a lively, intellectual 21-year-old girl who lives with her wealthy father. Despite her intelligence, Emma has little to do and is often quite weary of her empty everyday life. Having few companions of her own age, Emma often entertains herself by attempting to make matches between those around her. She jumps at the chance to help a destitute girl of unknown parentage, Harriet Smith, on her quest to secure the local vicar, Mr. Elton, as a potential suitor.
Emma, a self-assured young lady in Regency England, attempts to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.
As a young, beautiful, and wealthy woman, Emma decides to introduce Harriet Smith to society to find a husband. Emma entangles herself in a web in which everythings ends up precisely as it began.
Emma Woodhouse is lovely, lively, willful --- and fallible ... 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, will she be able to pull off a happy ending for everyone --- including herself?
Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
Sophie Thompson reads Emma
The story of Emma Woodhouse, beautiful and intelligent yet scheming and self-centered, as she attempts to manipulate the lives and romances of those around her. In so doing, she almost loses the one man who really loves her.
Emma is a comedy of manners, depicting the self-contained world of the 19th-century English life.
Presents Jane Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class--and love--after an eventful turn as a matchmaker.
"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable house 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." With this opening sentence, a reader might seem quite justified in thinking Jane Austen to have painted herself into a corner. What could possibly happen from here? In Austen's comedic masterpiece, however, Emma fancies herself a superb judge of human character and becomes entrenched in the amorous affairs of her friends. In doing so, she remains oblivious to her own romantic possibilities, and the resulting comical misunderstandings are highly entertaining. This book is the acme of Jane Austen's work, wry and funny all at the same time.
The funny and heartwarming story of a young lady whose zeal, snobbishness and self-satisfaction lead to several errors in judgment. Emma takes Harriet Smith, a parlour boarder and unknown, under her wing and schemes for advancement through a good marriage. The attempts at finding Harriet a suitor occupy all of Emma's time. However, in the midst of the search she settles on a most unlikely union with her own constant critic: Mr. Knightly.
Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class -- and love -- after an eventful turn as a matchmaker.
Compact discs
Kærlighed
Bildungsromans
Emma Woodhouse meddles in her friend's matrimonial prospects and learns a bitter lesson when her schemesbackfire.
A restless young woman, living with her widowed father in a small English town, finds her chief source of amusement in arranging the lives of her friends, a diversion which leads to complications.
Emma is one of the most delightful but also one of the most domineering of Jane Austen's heroines. Her attempts at manipulating other people's lives start in fun and end in hurt feelings and embarrassment for all concerned. The frothiness of the novel gives way to a deeper moral message, and all ends well -- better than Emma could have imagined.
'Emma', by many considered the best English novel, can be read as a charming love story, a detective story, and a comic and lively picture of English life 200 years ago.
Audiobooks
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. Considered by many critics to be Jane Austen's finest achievement, Emma is the witty classic masterpiece of matchmaking gone awry.
Emma Woodhouse is handsome, clever and rich. Unfortunately she is also self-opinionated, insensitive and meddlesome. Used to getting her own way, she is careless with other people's lives recklessly matchmaking without heed of the consequences.
Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoiled, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organises the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.
England Social life and customs 18th century Fiction.
England--Social life and customs--Fiction.