3 Ways To Read & Listen for Free
Be as clever as Emma Woodhouse and enjoy one of Jane Austen's best novels for free! It's your choice! You can listen to the audiobook, read the novel, watch the movie or if you really love the story, you can do all three!
Emma by Jane Austen (1815)
Emma is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of romantic misunderstandings. As in her other novels Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters. Before she began the novel Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the first sentence, she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition... and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." Emma is spoiled, headstrong and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray. (Summary by Wikipedia)
AUDIO BOOK:
Emma (version 7 Dramatic Reading)
https://librivox.org/emma-dramatic-reading-by-jane-austen/
EBOOK:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/158
ONLINE EDITION:
https://pemberley.com/etext/Emma/index.html
After you enjoy the book, you can watch the movie!
1996 movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow
1996 TV movie starring Kate Beckinsale
2009 four-part BBC miniseries starring Romola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller
2020 movie starring Anya Taylor-Joy
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