
Emma es una novela escrita por la autora inglesa Jane Austen. Está ambientada en el pueblo ficticio de Highbury, en Surrey, y en las fincas circundantes de Hartfield, Randalls y Donwell Abbey, e involucra las relaciones entre personas de un pequeño número de familias. La novela fue publicada por primera vez en diciembre de 1815, aunque la portada está fechada en 1816. Como en sus otras novelas, Austen explora las preocupaciones y dificultades de las mujeres de clase alta que vivían en la Inglaterra georgiana-regencia. Emma es una comedia de costumbres.
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“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
“A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable, old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.”
“It is such a happiness when good people get together—and they always do.”
“A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.”
“Can you trust me with such flatterers?—Does my vain spirit ever tell me I am wrong?”
“One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s.”
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