emma

Emma tells the story of an intelligent and industrious young woman determined to make Celestina one of her friends. When her governess, friend, and confidant decides to marry, Emma Woodhouse is left alone with her own feelings and faced with the emptiness in her life and the painful task of trying to get others to lead lives as perfect as her own. All her works of sentimental manipulation create around her a web of entanglements, misunderstandings and confusions that test her self-confidence. An exquisite novel and splendid portrait of provincial England in the early nineteenth century, Emma is an imperishable work and its protagonist occupies one of the places of honor in the gallery of the unforgettable heroines of world literature.