Emma (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Registered by tabby-cat-owner of Bellingham, Washington USA on 12/14/2014
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Emma Woodhouse is a wealthy, exquisite, and thoroughly self-deluded young woman who has "lived in the world with very little to distress or vex her."
Jane Austen exercises her taste for cutting social observation and her talent for investing seemingly trivial events with profound moral significance as Emma traverses a gentle satire of provincial balls and drawing rooms, along the way encountering the sweet Harriet Smith, the chatty and tedious Miss Bates, and her absurd father Mr. Woodhouse–a memorable gallery of Austen's finest personages. Thinking herself impervious to romance of any kind, Emma tries to arrange a wealthy marriage for poor Harriet, but refuses to recognize her own feelings for the gallant Mr. Knightley. What ensues is a delightful series of scheming escapades in which every social machination and bit of "tittle-tattle" is steeped in Austen's delicious irony. Ultimately, Emma discovers that "Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common."
Jane Austen exercises her taste for cutting social observation and her talent for investing seemingly trivial events with profound moral significance as Emma traverses a gentle satire of provincial balls and drawing rooms, along the way encountering the sweet Harriet Smith, the chatty and tedious Miss Bates, and her absurd father Mr. Woodhouse–a memorable gallery of Austen's finest personages. Thinking herself impervious to romance of any kind, Emma tries to arrange a wealthy marriage for poor Harriet, but refuses to recognize her own feelings for the gallant Mr. Knightley. What ensues is a delightful series of scheming escapades in which every social machination and bit of "tittle-tattle" is steeped in Austen's delicious irony. Ultimately, Emma discovers that "Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common."
Journal Entry 2 by tabby-cat-owner at Starbucks - 19th & Northern in Phoenix, Arizona USA on Friday, December 26, 2014
Released 9 yrs ago (12/26/2014 UTC) at Starbucks - 19th & Northern in Phoenix, Arizona USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
This book was left inside the Starbucks located on the northeast corner of 19th Avenue and Northern.
It was released for the What's in a Name release challenge.
It was released for the What's in a Name release challenge.
Journal Entry 3 by tabby-cat-owner at -- Wild Released Somewhere In Phoenix -- in Phoenix, Arizona USA on Friday, March 27, 2015
Released 9 yrs ago (3/27/2015 UTC) at -- Wild Released Somewhere In Phoenix -- in Phoenix, Arizona USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
was recently in this Starbucks store and I did a quick inventory of the books in their "lending library". This book is no longer in the store.