Emma /

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Author / Creator:Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Imprint:[Waiheke Island] : Floating Press, ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (766 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11281528
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ISBN:9781775412298
1775412296
1775563855
9781775563853
Notes:"First published in 1816"--Page 2.
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Summary:Emma stands a little apart from Jane Austen's other novels. It is perhaps the most self-aware, socially critical and ironic of all her works. Her protagonist, Emma Woodhouse, is a beautiful, rich girl who is also spoiled, proud and blinded by her own situation in life. She begins to understand herself and life a little better when her romantic schemes - charitable good works to those around her - become entangled in tensions of class and of the heart...