JAD Publishing presents a beautiful new paperback edition of Jane Austen's 1815 novel, Emma. Beautiful new cover - Original 1815 text, complete and unabridged. - New 5,000 biography of Jane Austen and a summary of all her works - Properly formatted for ease of reading - Makes a great gift for students or adults. Emma , by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. Emma is a precocious young lady whose misplaced confidence in her matchmaking abilities occasions several romantic misadventures. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England. Emma is a comedy of manners and depicts issues of marriage, sex, age, and social status. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was born in Hampshire, England, to George Austen, a rector, and his wife, Cassandra. Her novels include Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion , published together posthumously in 1818. A short epistolary novel, Lady Susan , and another unfinished work, The Watsons , were published posthumously in 1871, and a final unfinished novel, Sanditon , was eventually published in 1925. Her works are considered to be among the finest examples of early 19th century British literature, hallmarks of the transition to 19th-century literary realis