Emma - ReCoLectora

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Publicado el 2 de mayo de 2024 por Standard eBooks.

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Emma is one of Jane Austen’s best-loved novels. Its eponymous heroine, Emma Woodhouse, has lived a pampered, protected life and consequently is somewhat unrealistic when she sets her sights on becoming a matchmaker for a young friend.

The novel provides a light-hearted insight into the distinctions of the rigid class structure of England in the Regency period, and the social barriers to marriage between persons considered to be of superior and inferior rank.

Emma was published in 1815, the last of Austen’s novels to be published while she still lived. It received a generally very positive reception, and was well reviewed (though anonymously) by Sir Walter Scott. Criticisms of the novel, such as they were, centered around its supposed lack of plot, though its treatment of character was recognized and applauded. Today it is regarded as one of Austen’s best works. The novel has been adapted many times for …

Fiction

Emma is one of Jane Austen’s best-loved novels. Its eponymous heroine, Emma Woodhouse, has lived a pampered, protected life and consequently is somewhat unrealistic when she sets her sights on becoming a matchmaker for a young friend.

The novel provides a light-hearted insight into the distinctions of the rigid class structure of England in the Regency period, and the social barriers to marriage between persons considered to be of superior and inferior rank.

Emma was published in 1815, the last of Austen’s novels to be published while she still lived. It received a generally very positive reception, and was well reviewed (though anonymously) by Sir Walter Scott. Criticisms of the novel, such as they were, centered around its supposed lack of plot, though its treatment of character was recognized and applauded. Today it is regarded as one of Austen’s best works. The novel has been adapted many times for theater, movies and television.

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Nothing much happens in this book, and yet it is never boring. It's full of speech, and greatly written one a that. Besides the dialogues it is of course Austen's free indirect style that makes this book an absolute delight to read. Highbury and its surroundings is populated by distinct and very entertaining characters, ones to (love to) hate and ones to like; e.g. Mr & Mrs Elton on one side, and Mr. Woodhouse and Miss Bates on the other.

English is not my native language and although I would say I'm not too bad at it, I did have difficulties understanding things at times, especially in the last few chapters, but also throughout. But I didn't bother deciphering the meaning of those sentences this time. Maybe at a later date when I'll read it again. I don't think I missed more than a few minute details about some characters' …

Nothing much happens in this book, and yet it is never boring. It's full of speech, and greatly written one a that. Besides the dialogues it is of course Austen's free indirect style that makes this book an absolute delight to read. Highbury and its surroundings is populated by distinct and very entertaining characters, ones to (love to) hate and ones to like; e.g. Mr & Mrs Elton on one side, and Mr. Woodhouse and Miss Bates on the other.

English is not my native language and although I would say I'm not too bad at it, I did have difficulties understanding things at times, especially in the last few chapters, but also throughout. But I didn't bother deciphering the meaning of those sentences this time. Maybe at a later date when I'll read it again. I don't think I missed more than a few minute details about some characters' thoughts and feelings that do not take away from understanding the story at large.

I'm finally reading Austen's books in English this year, after almost 30 years of loving her work. Emma is one of my top favourite of hers.