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Emma es una novela en la que peculiarmente el dialogo es accion y la accion es dialogo, la verdad es mentira y la mentira verdad, donde reir y llorar es lo mismo. La historia de una joven inglesa de la clase media alta cuyas magnificas dotes intelectuales la precipitan a amanar las relaciones amorosas de los demas pensando que esta construyendo una pequena sociedad perfecta hasta que descubre con una desdicha transitoria que lo que ha construido es su perfecta pequenez.… (más)
kara.shamy: In some ways the heroines in these two novels are alike, but they are very different in other respects, and more strikingly, their respective journeys to the altar/married life go in diametrically opposite ways, in a sense! Both are true classics in my estimation; reading these two novels exposes the reader to two of the greatest English-language novelists of all time in the height of their respective powers. While all readers and critics do not and will not share this superlative view, few would dispute these are two early female masters of the form and are well worth a read on that humbler basis ;) Enjoy!… (más)
Sarasamsara: Like Austen's novels, The Makioka Sisters traces the daily lives and romances of an upper-class family-- the only difference is that this is pre-war Japan, not Regency England. Like in one of Austen's works, when you close the novel you feel like you are closing the door on someone's life.… (más)
nessreader: Both Emma and Miss M are about ambitious, capable upper class women who can only express themselves as social hostesses. Both heroines are managing and bossy - Miss M, a generation younger, is played more for laughs, but there is a strong parallel. And both end in utter satisfaction for heroine and reader alike.… (más)
Cuando la joven Emma -hija soltera del rico y distinguido señor Woodhouse- pierde la compañía de su antigua institutriz, toma bajo su tutela a la humilde Harriet Smith. Su extracción humilde y su simpleza, además de su hermosura, hacen de ella una candidata perfecta para que Emma pueda entregarse a su ocupación favorita: arreglar la vida de los demás. Sus afanes para que Harriet haga un matrimonio ventajoso y su personalidad manipuladora sufrirán, sin embargo, distintos reveses antes de alcanzar un final inesperado y feliz.
The beautiful young Emma Woodhouse loves to meddle in other people's affairs. She is, in fact, a matchmaker for her unsuspecting friends in this tale of 19th century England. Much gossip will surround the machinations of the witty Emma, who befriends a 17-year-old girl by the name of Harriet and tires to find her a suitor. However, she runs into complications as she comes to realize that she cannot quite control de feelings of other people, let alone be sure of her own. Jane Austen's characters have spurred endless commentary because their experience and emotions are so much a part of our collective conciseness.
Emma se enfrenta a un vacío en su vida y con un gran dilema: cómo ayudar a los demás a tener una vida tan perfecta como la suya. En contra del consejo de Knightley, busca posibles novios para su nueva amiga, Harriet Smith, una joven sencilla y modesta, alejada del estilo de vida de la alta sociedad. ( )
The institution of marriage, like the novel itself, has changed greatly since Austen’s time; but as long as human beings long for this kind of mutual recognition and understanding, “Emma” will live.
“Perhaps the key to Emma’s perfection, however, is that it is a comic novel, written in a mode that rarely gets much respect. It’s exquisitely ironic.”
“The presiding message of the novel is that we must forgive Emma for her shortcomings just as she can and does learn to excuse the sometimes vexing people around her. There is, I believe, more wisdom in that than in many, many more portentous and ambitious novels. Emma is flawed, but ‘Emma’ is flawless."
It’s a small but striking and instructive demonstration, the careful way Emma appraises the character of the various men who jockey for her attentions and those of the women around her. We could all learn from her example.
"In January 1814, Jane Austen sat down to write a revolutionary novel. Emma, the book she composed over the next year, was to change the shape of what is possible in fiction."
"The novel’s stylistic innovations allow it to explore not just a character’s feelings, but, comically, her deep ignorance of her own feelings. "
"Those who condemn the novel by saying that its heroine is a snob miss the point. Of course she is. But Austen, with a refusal of moralism worthy of Flaubert, abandons her protagonist to her snobbery and confidently risks inciting foolish readers to think that the author must be a snob too"
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To His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, this work is, by His Royal Highness's permission, most respectfully dedicated, by His Royal Highness's dutiful and obedient humble servant, the author.
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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.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
"I thank you; but I assure you, you are quite mistaken. Mr. Elton and I are very good friends, and nothing more, and she walked on, amusing herself in the consideration of the blunders which often arise from a partial knowledge of circumstances, of the mistakes which people of high pretensions to judgment are for every falling into..." (Emma)
"I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other."
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure.
I have seen a great many lists of her drawing up at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through--and very good books they were--very well chosen and very neatly arranged--sometimes alphabetically and sometimes by some other rule.
How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation? (Frank Weston Churchill)
Oh! The blessing of a female correspondent when one is really interested in the absent! (Frank Weston Churchill)
"I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more." (Mr. Knightley)
It will be natural for me...to speak my opinion aloud as I read. (Mr. Knightley)
These matters are always a secret till it is found out that everybody knows them. (Mr. Weston)
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
[...] a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.
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But, in spite of these deficiencies, the wishes, the hopes, the confidence, the predictions of the small band of true friends who witnessed the ceremony, were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the union.
Emma es una novela en la que peculiarmente el dialogo es accion y la accion es dialogo, la verdad es mentira y la mentira verdad, donde reir y llorar es lo mismo. La historia de una joven inglesa de la clase media alta cuyas magnificas dotes intelectuales la precipitan a amanar las relaciones amorosas de los demas pensando que esta construyendo una pequena sociedad perfecta hasta que descubre con una desdicha transitoria que lo que ha construido es su perfecta pequenez.
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