Modern Library Classics Emma

Introduction by A. Walton Litz &;Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.&; So begins Jane Austen&;s comic masterpiece Emma. In Emma, Austen&;s prose brilliantly elevates, in the words of Virginia Woolf, &;the trivialities of day-to-day existence, of parties, picnics, and country dances&; of early-nineteenth-century life in the English countryside to an unrivaled level of pleasure for the reader. At the center of this world is the inimitable Emma Woodhouse, a self-proclaimed matchmaker who, by the novel&;s conclusion, may just find herself the victim of her own best intentions. INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE