Emma

<b>A fascinating humorous and timeless coming-of-age tale featuring one of Jane Austen's most memorable characters.<br></b><br><i>Emma Woodhouse handsome clever and rich with a comfortable home and happy disposition...had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.</i><br> <b> </b><br>The celebrated opening of Jane Austen's <i>Emma</i> introduces readers to a supremely self-assured young woman who believes herself immune to romance. By turns brilliant and foolish self-aware and self-deluding Emma leaps from error to error writes Margaret Drabble in her incisive Introduction wreaking comic havoc in the lives of those around her with well-meant and ill-fated attempts at matchmaking. <p/>The mature flowering of Austen's singular and prolific genius <i>Emma</i> is a fascinating hilarious and timeless coming-of-age tale--the compelling story of a woman seeking her true nature and finding true love in the process. <p/><b>With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble</b><br><b>and an Afterword by Sabrina Jeffries </b>