Emma
- Author Jane Austen
- Narrator Jenny Agutter
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Run Time 14 hours and 45 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary.
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What to expect
Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoiled, vain, and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village, but her attempts at matchmaking lead to misunderstandings and potential heartbreak. Only her friend and neighbor Mr. Knightley dares to point out the mistakes she is making and encourages her to change her ways.
Critics Review
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“Emma has always been my favorite Jane Austen novel. A lot of people tend to like Emma—she’s such a winningly flawed person…You could almost say that Austen deals in types, which normally is a
Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
very dangerous practice and doesn’t lead to anything interesting. Yet
her work is stupendous. Her novels work themselves out with a tremendous
clarity that feels mathematical or geometric. It’s very spare; there’s
nothing extra. Her books shouldn’t work, but they do, and better than
almost anyone else’s.” -
“Not only is Emma one of the finest novels in the English language, but it is possibly Jane Austen’s most thought provoking and interesting book.”
Alexander McCall Smith -
“Jane Austen’s most charming novel (or second most charming, it’s an endless debate)…Austen was satirical about love but reverent about money; she had an
New York Times
almost romantic belief in the healing powers of wealth and breeding.” -
“Emma is a novel that is new, and grows in content, on each rereading. On
Guardian (London)
first encounter the reader is as duped by the ambiguously lovable
heroine’s misperceptions as she is herself. On the first rereading the
brilliance of Austen’s management bursts upon one, and with it the
scintillation of her irony. On each subsequent rereading further new
layers of irony and amusement unfold, as if inexhaustibly.”
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