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Emma : an authoritative text, backgrounds, reviews, and criticism

Emma tries to impose her match making ideas on everyone and finds that sometimes she should desist.

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  • ""Emma is a pretty girl of sterling character and more will than she can properly manage. She thinks she knows what is best for everybody, and is a prey to many deceptions. She is imposed upon, and imposes upon herself; it is a long while before she sees things as they are, and recognizes where her own happiness lies. Her hero is one of Jane's sober, clear-eyed, and perfect men. The Fairfax and Churchill subplot furnishes a comedy of dissimulation contrasting didactically with Emma's honesty. A formidable snob and vulgarian, Mrs. Elton, and a good-natured bore, Miss Bates, who would be insufferable outside these pages, are among the more laughable characters." Baker. Guide to the Best Fiction."
  • "Norton's third edition (previous editions, 1972 and 1993) based on Austen's 1816 edition, has a background section with letters to Austen's sister, Cassandra; an excerpt describing a country ball from "The Watsons" (a novel fragment); V. Woolf's commentary on "The Watsons"; and two biographical sketches of Austen by family members. Reviews and criticism include 16 assessments of the novel and critical overviews by Sir Walter Scott, George Henry Lewes, Henry James, E.M. Forster, Ian Watt, and others. Also provided is a commentary on film versions of "Emma". A chronology ends the edition. No index."
  • "Emma tries to impose her match making ideas on everyone and finds that sometimes she should desist."@en
  • "Emma tries to impose her match making ideas on everyone and finds that sometimes she should desist."

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  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Aufsatzsammlung"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"

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  • "Emma"
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  • "Emma : an authoritative text, backgrounds, reviews, and criticism"
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  • "Emma : an authoritative text : backgrounds, reviews, and criticism"
  • "Emma an authoritative text : backgrounds, reviews and criticism"
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  • "Emma an authoritative text, backgrounds, reviews and criticism"
  • "Emma /Jane Austen"@en
  • "Emma : an authoritative text backgrounds reviews and criticism"

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