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Another engaging read by Jane Austen. This was my third Austen book, with my goal of reading all six of her major novels this year. I still have Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey to go. I love Jane Austen's writing style and her subtle humor. I don't understand all of the cultural references, but it doesn't matter. Unlike many books set in Victorian times, in which females are porrayed as either angels or shrews, Emma is such a marvelously *human* character. After a failed attempt
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I know Jane Austen wrote her character as unlikable...but while reading this really hoped that she would die a horrible and painful death.
It didn't happen.
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It didn't happen.
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I love this entire series of annotated Jane Austen! I hope Mr. Shapard is hard at work on 'Mansfield Park' and 'Northanger Abbey'!
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Yea, the work is a good-read. I really like the head strong heroine, but guessed the outcome in the early pages itself. I think the problem with Emma is not her education, nor imagination, but class. Since she is from a higher class, she has the superiority feeling.. a kind of reproach to the lower class people...
This is a different edition from the other Annotated Emma that I read last year. This one is edited by Bharat Tandon, and I received a beautiful hardback copy from my husband for Christmas!
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