內容簡介
★富家女充當月下老人，亂點鴛鴦譜？珍‧奧斯汀最受讀者喜愛的小說！★
★愛情到底是有緣千里一線牽，還是那人卻在燈火闌珊處？★
年輕貌美、富裕且活力滿滿的富家女艾瑪，和父親同住，生活衣食無虞，雖然自己沒有結婚打算，倒是很愛幫別人湊對，唯有比她年長的紳士奈特利先生會給她建議，雖然，艾瑪大部分時候也是參考而已。
在家教老師結婚離開後，艾瑪的生活變得有些孤單，但個性活潑的她很快又找到了新的陪侍，哈莉葉‧史密斯是個私生女，雖長相可愛但不太聰明，很容易受到艾瑪慫恿，艾瑪認為哈莉葉值得更好的人，要她拒絕農夫馬丁的求婚，鼓勵她改向牧師埃爾頓先生進攻，但哈莉葉頻頻獻殷情卻適得其反，原來埃爾頓先生喜歡的對象是艾瑪？
剪不斷、理更亂的愛情關係其實不是眼中看到的那樣簡單，以為是命中註定的對象，其實真心等待的人早已在旁默默守候。
Famously described by the author as “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,” Emma Woodhouse is wealthy and charming, and she delights in interfering with the romantic relationships within her community―though she herself has no desire to marry. As her meddling begins to bear consequences, however, Emma must come to terms with her responsibility and decide on her place in the world. With inimitable wit and incisive social commentary, Austen evokes a complex prism of relational connection and a richness of ordinary life that unfolds from the small world of her most extraordinary heroine.
作者介紹
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, in England. Her father, an Anglican clergyman, encouraged her literary pursuits from a young age and by her mid-twenties, Austen had drafted three novels. Following the success of Sense and Sensibility in 1811, she went on to publish Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815). Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously in 1818. Despite her fondness for marriage plots–all six of her novels end in weddings–Austen never married, living with her mother and sister in the years leading up to her death. She died on July 18, 1817, in the city of Winchester. Over two centuries later, Austen’s novels remain beloved classics, and she is considered one of the foremost writers in English literary history.
Stephanie Insley Hershinow is an associate professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, where she specializes in novel theory and eighteenth-century culture. She is the author of Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel. She lives with her family in Jersey City, New Jersey.
