Emma by Jane Austen (Epub)

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Biography Jane Austen Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years into her thirties. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it. Austen’s works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her nephew’s A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a Janeite fan culture. Biographical information concerning Jane Austen is “famously scarce”, according to one biographer. Only some personal and family letters remain (by one estimate only 160 out of Austen’s 3,000 letters are extant), and her sister Cassandra (to whom most of the letters were originally addressed) burned “the greater part” of the ones she kept and censored those she did not destroy.

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Biography Jane Austen Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years into her thirties. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it. Austen’s works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her nephew’s A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a Janeite fan culture. Biographical information concerning Jane Austen is “famously scarce”, according to one biographer. Only some personal and family letters remain (by one estimate only 160 out of Austen’s 3,000 letters are extant), and her sister Cassandra (to whom most of the letters were originally addressed) burned “the greater part” of the ones she kept and censored those she did not destroy.

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⭐ I recently read Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, one of the most popular books of the nineteenth century, and the contrast with Emma could not be more striking.While the charm of Ivanhoe lies in its romantic depiction of a fictional Middle Ages, it’s characters are one dimensional, the dialogue is unrealistic and the protagonists fail to show any growth throughout the story.What makes Emma perennial in a way Ivanhoe is not is that Austen was one of humankind’s greatest authors. Note how Emma changes from the beginning of the story to its end, how even her thoughts and words flow differently at different times in the story. It’s hard enough to create an original and believable character. It’s the mark of a great authoress to create original and believable characters that evolve throughout the narrative.Though it hardly needs it, I can confirm that Emma is truly one of the world’s greatest classics. Highly recommended.

⭐ Enchanting and entertaining. Such imagination in the words of Jane Austin!!I would not want to ice without her books.My go-to favorites for all my reading at anytime, anywhere day!!

⭐ Thanks.

⭐ This is my first Jane Austin. She is a skillful period author but the plot in Emma has not captured my full attention.

⭐ I ordered three novels by Jane Austen for a class. It was my misfortune that all three were published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. All three are unacceptable. Pride and Prejudice and Emma have no page numbers, chapters start in the middle of the page, and the books are physically too large to hold comfortably. Sense and Sensibility is physically smaller, but the type is so small as to be unreadable, and pages from a completely unrelated book are bound in the middle. Look for copies of these novels from another publisher.

⭐ Interesting to read after seeing the story on film. Language a little inpenetrabale in places if one is not used to reading novels of this vintage. I would have found it almost unintelligible if I had not seen the film and therefore familiar with the direction of the story. Where is all the political and social turmoil of this period. missing in inaction.

⭐ The paperback must be 81/2 X 11. It looks like a notebook. Not large print just an enormous size. I had no idea that this was what was coming. Very awkward for reading!!

⭐ Loved it!

⭐ Not Jane Austen’s best.

⭐ The book was printed in magazine format which I found most difficult to read and prepare for a book group meeting.

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