Emma

<b>Introduction by A. Walton Litz</b><br> <b>&#160;</b><br> &#147;Emma Woodhouse handsome clever and rich with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.&#148; So begins Jane Austen&#146;s comic masterpiece <i>Emma</i>. In <i>Emma </i>Austen&#146;s prose brilliantly elevates in the words of Virginia Woolf &#147;the trivialities of day-to-day existence of parties picnics and country dances&#148; of early-nineteenth-century life in the English countryside to an unrivaled level of pleasure for the reader. At the center of this world is the inimitable Emma Woodhouse a self-proclaimed matchmaker who by the novel&#146;s conclusion may just find herself the victim of her own best intentions.<br> &#160;<br> INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE