Emma
by Jane Austen
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“You’ve got to have Jane Austen. She’s the first serious novelist. She is treating the novel in a way that we understand and creating an art form. I chose Emma. It would have been easier to choose Pride and Prejudice because it’s everyone’s favourite—it tops polls regularly. But if you want something a little bit more considered… It’s the most mature of the seven” Read more...
Robert McCrum, Journalist
“Emma is extremely cocky, she believes that she is right in all her judgments.” Read more...
Patricia Meyer Spacks, Literary Scholar
“She is drawing on the world she knows, which is the world of the provinces rather than the metropolis or the government. In Emma you come across the provincial gentry and the yeoman class. Austen is well aware of the money coming in from the wars and has a very good grasp of local economy, which is reflected in the book.” Read more...
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