Emma

By (author) Brontë, Charlotte; By (author) Wilde, Oscar; Introduction by Welsh Irvine; By (author) Austen, Jane
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Celebrate Jane Austen''s 250th birthday with this beautiful gift edition of her groundbreaking novel, a story with the most charming and unreliable of heroines, Emma. It comes with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and is finished with a silk ribbon.

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Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances'' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance.

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Review quote:
Whatever age you are, Austen has something for you. I would go further, in fact, to assert that a reader never comes away from an Austen novel empty-handed—Joanna Trollope

That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with—

I''d like to write a play as perfect as Emma—

Austen''s characters are unquestionably one key to her greatness. Her understanding of the human heart is forensic and also frosted with the necessary detachment that gives deeper meaning to her rendering of human frailty—Guardian

It is the cleverest of books. I especially love the dialogue - every speech reveals the characters'' obsessions and preoccupations, yet it remains perfectly natural...absolutely gripping—

Jane Austen is my favourite author! Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers—

Who needs eReaders when book publishers are repackaging classic tales in beautiful covers like these? … Perfect for fans of the author—Bella

Beautifully designed… Perfect collectable gift for Austen fans and design devotees—So Darling

These might be the loveliest editions of Jane Austen’s novels we’ve seen in a long time—A Little Bird (blog)
Biographical note:
Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.