Reviews
"This edition...is fine. Castle's intro is...enthusiatic. [The] chronology and select bibliography are excellent."--David Mazella,University of Houston "[A] beautiful, attractive book with excellent introduction and notes."--Lloyd Davies,Western Kentucky University, "This edition...is fine. Castle's intro is...enthusiatic. [The] chronology and select bibliography are excellent."--David Mazella, University of Houston"[A] beautiful, attractive book with excellent introduction and notes."--Lloyd Davies, Western Kentucky University, "This edition...is fine. Castle's intro is...enthusiatic. [The] chronology and select bibliography are excellent."--David Mazella, University of Houston "[A] beautiful, attractive book with excellent introduction and notes."--Lloyd Davies, Western Kentucky University
Synopsis
Emma (1816) is Jane Austen's most characteristic work. Written with irony, wit, and faultless control, it is both a novel of intense emotional power and a comic masterpiece. This edition has a new Introduction which examines the pleasure given by Emma 's reassuringly stable world as well as by its comedy, and examines the relationships, imagery, and continuing power of Austen's last and perhaps greatest novel., Emma (1816) is Jane Austen's most characteristic work. Written with irony, wit, and faultless control, it is both a novel of intense emotional power and a comic masterpiece. This edition has a new Introduction which examines the pleasure given by Emma's reassuringly stable world as well as by its comedy, and examines the relationships, imagery, and continuing power of Austen's last and perhaps greatest novel., Emma is Jane Austen's most characteristic work. Written with i rony, wit, and faultless control, it is both a novel of intense emotional power and a comic masterpiece. This edition has a new Introduction which examines the pleasure given by Emma's reassuringly stable world as well as by its comedy, and examines the relationships, imagery, and continuing power of Austen's last and perhaps greatest novel.
