Anchor Books The Annotated Emma

A despeito do conteúdo excelente, o livro chegou com a capa completamente danificada.

Love these annotated versions! So informative and helpful! I’m actually one who has read all Austen’s books numerous times and know a lot about the history, but I learned a lot and understood much better. Kudos to the editor and publisher for enriching my life with these editions. I have also been sending as gifts to all my Janite friends. Even the former English majors are thrilled. Just the thing for anyone who loves to increase their knowledge all their lifelong.

"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition" is the twenty-one-year-old heroine of Jane Austen's wonderful novel: 'Emma' set in the village of Highbury. Having decided to remain unmarried herself, Emma delights in match-making amongst her friends and neighbours and with one success already under her belt, with the marriage of her governess to an eligible gentleman neighbour, Emma sets out to help things along in the matrimonial field with her new friend, Harriet, and the vicar, Mr Elton - against the advice of her good friend, Mr Knightley. Mr Elton, however, has other ideas and has his mind set on quite a different partner and hence the road to romance does not quite go the way Emma had planned. And then a very suitable and seemingly eligible young man for Emma arrives in Highbury and is keen to make himself amenable to our heroine, but this young man is hiding a secret - a secret which, when finally revealed, shocks Emma and everyone around her....From an author who really needs no introduction, this witty, beautifully written and deftly composed story is a delight from start to finish. Emma is a marvellous (if sometimes slightly irritating) heroine, and most of the other characters are wonderful too, including Emma's hypochondriac father and the very garrulous Miss Bates. Wonderfully amusing this is a novel to read and reread - however, the main purpose of this review is to mention this particular edition which has been annotated by David Shapard and which has the notes printed on the facing page of each page of text, along with pictures and diagrams of people and objects from the early 19th century. Of course if you are familiar with language and traditions from this period, you will not need this particular edition, but I bought a set of these annotated Jane Austen novels for a young teenaged relative of mine who has not been brought up in England and needed more explanation than is available in most editions. She is finding this edition particularly helpful and it has helped her to enjoy the story much more than she otherwise would have done.5 Stars.

Useful for Mrs in her English literature classes for students.Thanks.

Disponibile in cartaceo ed in edizione Kindle, questa edizione della Anchor Books con le note di David M. Shapard (sì con la "A": S-H-A-P-A-R-D) è a mio avviso la migliore per i romanzi di Jane Austen. Pubblicati 5 romanzi in Kindle e cartaceo. A Febbraio 2016 sarà disponibile il sesto, Mansfield Park, in edizione Kindle. Forse per l'Estate 2016 sarà stampato il relativo cartaceo di Mansfield Park.Sense and sensibility potrebbe iniziare a scarseggiare in cartaceo, ma probabilmente è in preparazione una seconda edizione.La copertina è flessibile e la lingua è solo inglese.