Emma (Clasicos Universales Planeta) (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Jane Austen (Author)

Book Description

Series: Clasicos Universales Planeta | Publication Date: June 1998

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. So begins Jane Austen's comic masterpiece Emma. In Emma, Austen's prose brilliantly elevates, in the words of Virginia Woolf, the trivialities of day-to-day existence, of parties, picnics, and country dances 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's conclusion, just may find herself the victim of her own best intentions.

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"Jane Austen is my favorite author! ... Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers." —EM Forster --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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. So begins Jane Austen's comic masterpiece Emma. In Emma, Austen's prose brilliantly elevates, in the words of Virginia Woolf, the trivialities of day-to-day existence, of parties, picnics, and country dances 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's conclusion, just may find herself the victim of her own best intentions. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 398 pages
• Publisher: Planeta Pub Corp (June 1998)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 8432038776
• ISBN-13: 978-8432038778
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,612,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Though the domain of Jane Austen's novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775, she was educated mainly at home. At an early age she began writing sketches and satires of popular novels for her family's entertainment. As a clergyman's daughter from a well-connected family, she had an ample opportunity to study the habits of the middle class, the gentry, and the aristocracy. At twenty-one, she began a novel called "The First Impressions" an early version of Pride and Prejudice. In 1801, on her father's retirement, the family moved to the fashionable resort of Bath. Two years later she sold the first version of Northanger Abby to a London publisher, but the first of her novels to appear was Sense and Sensibility, published at her own expense in 1811. It was followed by Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815). After her father died in 1805, the family first moved to Southampton then to Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Despite this relative retirement, Jane Austen was still in touch with a wider world, mainly through her brothers; one had become a very rich country gentleman, another a London banker, and two were naval officers. Though her many novels were published anonymously, she had many early and devoted readers, among them the Prince Regent and Sir Walter Scott. In 1816, in declining health, Austen wrote Persuasion and revised Northanger Abby, Her last work, Sandition, was left unfinished at her death on July 18, 1817. She was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Austen's identity as an author was announced to the world posthumously by her brother Henry, who supervised the publication of Northanger Abby and Persuasion in 1818.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A five star book, December 26, 1998

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This review is from: Emma (Clasicos Universales Planeta) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

I loved the comedy and the romance. An absolutly brilliantly written book, like the many others that Jane Austen wrote.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente, April 28, 2011

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Jordal (Miami, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: EMMA (Spanish Edition) (Kindle Edition)

Siendo posiblemente el mejor libro de Austen es una novela magnifica. Esta es una excelente traducción lo cual hace la lectura fácil y amena.

5.0 out of 5 stars Algo increible, May 30, 2011

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Hansel - See all my reviews

This review is from: EMMA (Spanish Edition) (Kindle Edition)

Austen te transporta a otra epoca, a otro tiempo, a una vida que parece mas ficcion que realidad y te mantiene ahi fiel a la lectura. Puede que esta se la obra capital de la autora.