Emma

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1995 (1906).* Publisher: Everyman, J.M.Dent.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a portrait miniature of an unknown lady by George Engleheart. White titles to spine and face on a dark blue ground. No bumps or rubs, shelf wear or reading creases to spine or to hinge. Seems lightly used. FINE.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. Very slight age to page margins and edges. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 386 pp. text. lviii pp. text summary, notes, acknowledgements at rear.* Product Description:- The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, notes, selected criticism, text summary and chronology of Jane Austen's life and times. Emma ~ youngest daughter of Henry Woodhouse, gentleman of Highbury in Surrey ~ is happy, handsome and rich, with a tendency to matchmaking rather in advance of her twenty years. She had only two faults. She thought rather too highly of herself and was far too fond of getting her own way. From this comedy of misunderstandings Austen distils a work which reveals through brilliant irony, the way the mind is misled by hidden desires.* This is a NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st. thus, with some light age reducing it to VG++.*