‘I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall’<\/b><\/p>\n
Beautiful, clever, rich – and single – Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her prot\u00c3\u00a9g\u00c3\u00a9e Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen’s most flawless work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen’s most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organises the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[68],"product_tag":[26949,672],"class_list":["post-98059","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-general-fiction","product_tag-classic-fiction","product_tag-romance","pa_book_author-austen-jane","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-823-7-edition23","pa_edition-reprint","pa_imprint-penguin-classics","pa_language-english","pa_pages-13073","pa_publisher-penguin-classics","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n