First published in 1816, Emma is generally
regarded as Jane Austen’s most technically brilliant and comic work. An heiress who is
determined not to marry ends up falling in love. Emma Woodhouse is a snob, a meddler, and
spoilt; but she is also clever, funny, generous, and compassionate. As in all of Jane Austen’s
works, the simple theme of courtship belies the complexity of her vision of human nature.
Emma is introduced by H.M. Daleski, formerly President of the International Dickens Society and Chairman of the Department of English at the Hebrew University. He is the author of Dickens and the Art of Analogy, The Divided Heroine, Unities: Studies in the English Novel, and other books.
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