Emma - The World's Classics Author:Jane Austen, James Kinsley, David Lodge Emma (1816) is Jane Austen's most characteristic work. Written with irony, wit, and faultless control, it is both a novel of intense emotional power and a comic masterpiece. This edition has a new Introduction which examines the pleasure given by Emma's reassuringly stable world as well as by — its comedy, and examines the relationships, imagery,... more » amd continuing power of Austen's last and perhaps greatest novel.« less