Emma

Oft-copied but never bettered,Jane Austen’s Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners that follows the charming but insensitive Emma Woodhouse as she sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in the little town of Highbury. Taking the pretty but dreary Harriet Smith as her subjectEmma creates misunderstandings and chaos as she tries to find Harriet a suitoruntil she begins to realize it isn’t the lives of others she must try to transform.Gorgeously illustrated by the celebrated Hugh Thomsonthis Macmillan Collector’s Library edition also includes an afterword by David Pinching.Designed to appeal to the bookloverthe Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure.