书名：Emma (Collectors Library)爱玛
作者：Jane Austen

出版社名称：Macmillan Collector's Library

出版时间：2016

语种：英语
ISBN：9781909621664

商品尺寸：10.2 x 3.1 x 15.6 cm

包装：平装
页数：592（以实物为准）

Emma《爱玛》创作于1815年，是简·奥斯汀生前末尾一部与读者见面的小说，被认为是其艺术手法上成熟的作品。简·奥斯汀曾把《爱玛》献给英国摄政王（乔治四世）。王子的秘书正式回函向她表示谢意。而且，英国知名的文艺批评家凯特尔博士（Dr．Kettle）还把这部小说视为奥斯汀生平所写过的“非常伟大和具有代表性的作品”。

推荐理由：

1.小说的反讽基调格外浓厚，并充满喜剧色彩，独具匠心，值得一读；

2.语言诙谐幽默，文笔细腻，对人物性格和心理的刻画细致入微；

3.写作风格清新脱俗，用词浅显，并不艰涩难懂。

Clever, rich and beautiful, Emma Woodhouse sees no need for marriage, but loves interfering in the romantic lives of others. Her matchmaking plans soon unravel, however, with consequences that she never expected. Jane Austen’s novel of youthful exuberance and gradual self-knowledge is a brilliant, sparkling comic masterpiece. The irrepressible Emma, although described by Austen as a character “whom no one but myself will much like”, is one of her most beloved heroines.

她是一个美丽、聪慧而富有的姑娘，同时也是一位不折不扣的幻想家。她热心关注身边的浪漫故事，却又固执地认为自己永远不会陷入其中。她自作主张为孤女哈丽埃特导演了一次又一次的恋爱。当哈丽埃特误以为自己爱上了地方官奈特利先生时，爱玛才惊觉原来自己也在爱着奈特利先生。这虽与她一开始就宣布的终身不嫁的誓言有悖，但坠入情网的她不得不放弃自己天真的誓言。

As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right—perhaps even her “duty”—to arrange the lives of others. Considered by most critics to be Austen’s most technically brilliant achievement, “Emma” sparkles with ironic insights into self-deception, self-discovery, and the interplay of love and power.

简•奥斯汀（1775-1817），19世纪英国女性小说家。生于英国小乡镇史蒂文顿的一个牧师家庭，几乎从未接受过正规教育，但由于家庭文学空气熏陶而成为作家。其作品主要描绘她在狭小生活圈子里所熟悉的中产阶级的家庭生活，青年男女的恋爱婚姻及其心态，具有观察细致，人物刻画惟妙惟肖，评论尖刻等艺术特色。其一生共创作了六部小说，分别是《理智与情感》《傲慢与偏见》《曼斯菲尔德庄园》《爱玛》《诺桑觉寺》《劝导》。

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime,Sense and Sensibility (1811),Pride and Prejudice (1813),Mansfield Park (1814) andEmma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817.Northanger Abbey andPersuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.