Emma in Love [Hardcover]

Emma Tennant (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 16, 1996

A sequel to Jane Austen's "Emma", this is the story of Emma two years after she has married Mr Knightley. There may be harmony between them but Emma is frankly bored and to amuse herself she decides to take up matchmaking again.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 156 pages
• Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd; First Edition edition (September 16, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 185702527X
• ISBN-13: 978-1857025279
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,280,629 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Emma in lesbian love tryst, December 30, 1999

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Jennifer Smith (Orlando, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Emma in Love: Jane Austen's Emma Continued (Paperback)

I was so excited when i saw this book; imagine, more of my beloved friend, Emma! However, I was dismayed to find that Emma Tennant, the author, could distort and trivialize these characters I had grown to love. Please! Emma kissing a chick, even if she was really a man, is unthinkable. Please do not read this if you want to think of Highbury the same way.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A complete failure, April 13, 2003

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Victoria "starbrow" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Emma in Love: Jane Austen's Emma Continued (Paperback)

I have heard many fellow online Pemberlians speak with loathing of Emma Tennant and her novels....but naturally I was curious to check things out for myself.

I must admit, it is as bad and far more than everything I have heard. Nearly every aspect of this novel is atrocious, and a true Jane Austen fan will detest every page of it. If you are not an avid reader of Austen novels, you may tolerate it, or at least not feel such a revulsion; but in that case, the plot and characters will simply be confusing, not to mention completely uninteresing.

Tennant takes the delicious, intriguing characters in Jane Austen's "Emma" and turns them into horribly twisted, shallow, misguided, and unappealing cardboard cutouts. The motivations and representations of our dear Emma, Mr. Knightley, etc., as mentioned in other reviews, is skewed as far as is humanly possible; if this were a parody, perhaps this could be acceptable, but it is not, and the novel takes itself far too seriously and inaccurately to be enjoyable in any way, shape, or form, either as an Austen sequel or parody.

Plotwise, "Emma in Love" is hackneyed and boring, taking liberties with events that certainly would never have happened in a lifetime of Austen stories. The writing is equally bad - about on par with ... romance novels that come a dime a dozen. This is certainly no kin whatsoever to the Jane Austen I know, and the witty and engaging Regency author does not deserve such a degrading and trashy "sequel." Far from being adventurous, "Emma in Love" treads overtrodden ground as simply a twisted romance novel, and comes close to desecrating a classic author's grave (to use a melodramatization worthy of the Austen heroine Catherine Morland). Rereading the original will do you a world of good, especially to cleanse the mind from dreck such as this.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars God-awful garbage!, August 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Emma in Love: Jane Austen's Emma Continued (Paperback)

This book deserves NO stars. I love Jane Austen, and have been reading her novels since the age of 10. The characters have become so real to me over the years, and so I scooped up the sequel to my favorite Austen work, EMMA,and was amazed to find the spirited, self-centered (but lovable) heroine of Austen's work degraded into a whining twit who seeks sexual and emotional fulfillment from the husband who treats her as little more than a sister. Moreover, she toys with the idea of finding it in the company of another WOMAN. This is not the place for risque situations and sexual frustrations -- this is Austen's world; please respect the rules!!