Emma

Resumen del libro

A special edition featuring beautiful heritage wallpaper patterns from her own home in Hampshire, these collectable paperbacks are a must for all Jane Austen fans. From Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Oft-copied but never bettered, Jane Austen's Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners.

Austen follows the charming but insensitive Emma Woodhouse as she sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in the little town of Highbury. Taking the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith as her subject, Emma creates misunderstandings and chaos as she tries to find Harriet a suitor, until she begins to realize it isn't the lives of others she must try to transform. With original illustrations by the celebrated Hugh Thomson, this Macmillan Collector's Library edition also features bonus material by Jane Austen expert and curator of Jane Austen's House Sophie Reynolds.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Jane Austen (Steventon, 1775 - Winchester, 1817) es una de las figuras más destacadas de la narrativa inglesa. Aunque su nombre era conocido en algunos círculos aristocráticos, sus primeros títulos tuvieron que aparecer de forma anónima. Solo a partir de la publicación póstuma de x{0026}lt;i La abadía de Northangerx{0026}lt;/i y, precisamente, de x{0026}lt;i Persuasiónx{0026}lt;/i (en 1818), su hermano Henry reveló la identidad de la autora de x{0026}lt;i Sentido y sensibilidadx{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i Orgullo y prejuiciox{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i Emmax{0026}lt;/i o x{0026}lt;i Mansfield Parkx{0026}lt;/i . El éxito de su obra responde seguramente a lo que sir Walter Scott llamó el talento más prodigioso que se haya visto para describir los sentimientos y las relaciones sentimentales .x{0026}lt;/p