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Misha Glenny delves in to the In Our Time archive to select ten episodes for listeners to revisit. His ninth choice is the episode on Jane Austen’s novel Emma, first released in November 2015. Austen described her leading character as "a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like." Emma is one of Austen’s most popular novels and arguably her masterpiece, a brilliantly sparkling comedy of manners published in December 1815 by John Murray, the last to be published in Austen's lifetime. This followed Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Mansfield Park (1814), with her brother Henry handling publication of N...
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- 216 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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Hello. For this week's In Our Time classic, I've picked Jane Austen's novel Emma, described by Melvin's guests as the author's masterpiece. I first read Emma when it was chosen as a set text for my A-level English. It was also the first novel that I read more than once. And as Melvin's guests agree, one of the greatest pleasures of this magnificent novel
is how every reading reveals something new about character, mores, and plot. Jane Austen weaves personal ambition, desire, snobbery, and instinct on a backcloth of a closed social circle in a small community in Surrey. While the eponymous heroine Emma is vivacious, clever, and, let's face it, self-regarding, she slowly learns, through mistake after mistake,
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