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EmmaOn the coverYoung Woman in an Interior, Auguste Toulmouche
Emma
Clever, rich, and certain she knows best, Emma Woodhouse appoints herself matchmaker to her quiet village, and misreads every heart around her, including her own. Austen’s sunniest comedy of self-deception.
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Austen’s most perfectly built comedy, a mystery in plain sight where the clues are everywhere and the detective is fooling herself. Re-read it and watch the whole village wink at you.
SettingRegency England, 1810s
A snug Regency village where rank is everything and a small social circle is the entire world; a young woman’s power runs exactly as far as her cleverness and her father’s money.