An EverymanтАЩs Library edition of Jane AustenтАЩs revolutionary and inspiring novel, which is once again a major motion picture.
Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse is comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other peopleтАЩs livesтАФfor their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, the dangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealing Harriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. EltonтАФand ends with her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of lifeтАЩs more intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured.
AustenтАЩs comic imagination was so deft and beautifully fluent that she could use it to probe the deepest human ironies while setting before us a dazzling gallery of charactersтАФsome pretentious or ridiculous, some admirable and moving, all utterly true.