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Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a heroine whom no one but myself will much like but Emma is irresistible Handsome clever and rich Emma is also an imaginist on fire with speculation and foresight She sees the signs of romance all around her but thinks she will never be married

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work.

Emma Woodhouse è una giovane ricca e sfrontata, con una sola passione: combinare matrimoni. Dopo aver trovato marito alla governante che le ha fatto da madre, si dedica con grande determinazione a Harriet Smith, una ragazza povera e ingenua, che spera di poter spingere tra le braccia del reverendo Elton. Anche se il tentativo si rivela fallimentare, Emma continua a intrecciare flirt con l'indipendenza di chi non teme i sentimenti, finendo però per cadere lei stessa vittima delle proprie manovre. Con "Emma" Jane Austen crea un'eroina che, secondo le parole della stessa autrice, non poteva piacere ad altri che a lei: una protagonista ben consapevole della propria bellezza e intelligenza, presuntuosa e pungente, ma di uno spessore umano complesso e sfaccettato, capace d'incantare i lettori d'ogni epoca.

Un estuche sin par con las seis novelas de Jane Austen en edición especial tapa dura de Penguin Clásicos. Sentido y sensibilidad, Orgullo y prejuicio, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasión y La abadía de Northanger Las heroinas son Marianne, Elizabeth, Fanny, Emma, Anne o Catherine. Y en sus orbitas no tardan en aparecer caballeros de dudosa estirpe como John Willoughby o de impecable fibra moral como Fitzwilliam Darcy. Diferenciarlos, sin embargo, no es tan facil como puede pensarse. Y el verdadero amor rara vez esta donde se espera. En estas seis novelas magistrales, que funcionan con la puntualidad de comedias clasicas, las jovenes descubren que el camino hacia el matrimonio esta tan lleno de encantos como de desencantos, y que perseguir los propios ideales supone a veces desafiar a la sociedad que los ha inspirado. Con ironia y amabilidad, Jane Austen demuestra que es no solo la gran observadora de su epoca, sino una analista insuperable del corazon humano. Sin duda, Virginia Woolf no se equivocaba cuando la llamo "la escritora de libros inmortales"; esta edicion completa ofrece la oportunidad perfecta

The epistolary novel Lady Susan is the darkly humorous tale of the amatory schemes and machinations of an ambitious and unprincipled coquette. The Watsons is the story of the refined and well-educated Emma Watson, forced by the second marriage of her aunt to return to the house of her impecunious father and face the marital plots and intrigues of her sisters. Begun by the author in the last few months of her life, Sanditon, set in a fast-growing former fi shing village, swiftly becoming a fashionable resort, pokes fun at the inhabitants of the new coastal town, with all their hypochondria, witlessness and self-obsession.

Marianne Dashwood cant understand her sister. How could the attractive, witty, and charming Elinor fall for the quiet, self-effacing, and rather dull Edward Ferrars? And, if the two are in love, why dont they shout it to the world? Meanwhile, Elinor worries that Mariannes heart-first approach to life will hurt her, especially when it comes to the dashing John Willoughby. The two sisters spar good-naturedly over the merits of full-blown emotionalism versus reticence and self-discipline in matters of the heart. Fond as they are of each other, each is certain that hers is the only true path to love. Meanwhile, both Edward and Willoughby harbor secrets that will force these women to doubt their philosophies, their judgment, and their chances for happiness. With Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, Austen served notice that a new and important author had arrivedone whose style, wit, and piercing sense of satire supported a compelling story peopled with finely drawn characters and punctuated with remarkable insights into the human condition.

Elizabeth Bennett is young, clever and attractive, but her mother is a nightmare and she and her four sisters are in dire need of financial security and escape in the shape of husbands. The arrival of nice Mr Bingley and arrogant Mr Darcy in the neighbourhood turns all their lives upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry, enmity and love.