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Presents the complete text of Jane Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class--and love--after an eventful turn as a matchmaker, and includes a comprehensive study guide with explanations and discussions of the plot, question and answer sections, a list of characters, and a short biography of Jane Austen.

A charming, young English woman is at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable and is forced to choose between convention and passion.

Anne Elliot, persuaded by family and friends that the charming and handsome Frederick Wentworth is not worthy of her regard, questions her decision to send him away until he returns seven years later, with his circumstances much improved.

Presents an annotated edition of the nineteenth-century novel of Regency England that centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy; and includes background materials, reviews, and critical essays.

Anne Elliot sent Frederick Wentworth away seven years ago when she was an unhappy girl beset by troubles.