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Sparkling comedy of provincial manners concerns a well-intentioned young heiress and her matchmaking schemes that result in comic confusion for the inhabitants of a 19th-century English village. Droll characterizations of the well-intentioned heroine, her hypochondriacal father, plus many other finely drawn personalities make this sparkling satire of provincial life one of Jane Austen's finest novels.
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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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Very interesting classical novel. Jane Austin's literary masterpiece.
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I would give the first 300 pages about 3 stars and then the last 100 pages were 4 stars. The first part of the novel was so slow for me that I found myself setting it aside a lot and then forgetting about it. Consequently, it took me a long time to finish this one. It wasn't bad necessarily but definitely not a favorite Austen of mine.
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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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