Emma , first published in 1816, was written when Jane Austen was at the height of her powers. In a novel remarkable for its sparkling wit and modernity, Austen presents readers with two of literature’s greatest comic creations—the eccentric Mr. Woodhouse and that quintessential bore, Miss Bates. Here, too, we have what may well be Jane Austen’s most profound characterization:...
Emma , first published in 1816, was written when Jane Austen was at the height of her powers. In a novel remarkable for its sparkling wit and modernity, Austen presents readers with two of literature’s greatest comic creations—the eccentric Mr. Woodhouse and that quintessential bore, Miss Bates. Here, too, we have what may well be Jane Austen’s most profound characterization: the witty, imaginative, self-deluded Emma, a heroine the author declared “no one but myself will much like,” but who has been much loved by generations of readers. Delightfully funny, full of rich irony, Emma is regarded as one of Jane Austen’s finest achievements.
Austen’s subject matters always concern three or four landed gentry families, which, in Emma, are the Woodhouse, the Knightley and the Churchill, the wealthy and noble families, while in Pride and Pr... Austen’s subject matters always concern three or four landed gentry families, which, in Emma, are the Woodhouse, the Knightley and the Churchill, the wealthy and noble families, while in Pride and Prejudice, the Darcy, the Bingley, and the Catherine de B(展开)
As her usual focus on the description of the provincial aristocratic-bourgeois life of the late 18th-century England, the gentry families to be specific, Jane Austen writes Emma, with an ever more conspicuous and trenchant view, and in meticulous detai...
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Though I can not say that Emma disappoints me greatly, it makes me lose interest in Austin’s other novels. When first reading Austen’s Pride and Prejudice three years ago, I was favorably impressed by it, especially by the brave, intelligent and open-mind...
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1 有用 贾不许 2009-02-22 19:15:31
Austen’s subject matters always concern three or four landed gentry families, which, in Emma, are the Woodhouse, the Knightley and the Churchill, the wealthy and noble families, while in Pride and Pr... Austen’s subject matters always concern three or four landed gentry families, which, in Emma, are the Woodhouse, the Knightley and the Churchill, the wealthy and noble families, while in Pride and Prejudice, the Darcy, the Bingley, and the Catherine de B (展开)
0 有用 Alexandrie_? 2014-09-24 18:36:00
我一定是神婆附体,woodhouse小姐和knightley先生第1,2两场见面我就知道:嗯。你们俩能成。。。果然!frank,还没出场就知道是个负心汉。。果然!简直了。。。
0 有用 正在看牡丹 2007-10-25 09:45:03
读到第二卷就让人欲罢不能了;Emma毕竟还是一个可爱的姑娘。这个 版本错字也太多了吧
0 有用 哦 2008-04-11 11:48:55
完美的小说
0 有用 小红帽 2010-05-15 05:07:18
应该早两三年读的;又或者当时看了也没用。