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Original Title:	Emma
ISBN:	0804197954 (ISBN13: 9780804197953)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Austen Project #3
Characters:	Emma Woodhouse

Emma (The Austen Project #3) Hardcover | Pages: 368 pages

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The summer after she graduates from university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury, where she will live with her health-conscious father until she is ready to launch her interior-design business and strike out on her own. In the meantime, she will do what she does best: offer guidance to those less wise than she is in the ways of the world. Happily, this summer brings many new faces to Highbury and into the sphere of Emma's not always perfectly felicitous council: Harriet Smith, a naïve teacher's assistant at the ESL school run by the hippie-ish Mrs. Goddard; Frank Churchill, the attractive stepson of Emma's former governess; and, of course, the perfect Jane Fairfax. This modern-day Emma is wise, witty, and totally enchanting, and will appeal equally to Alexander McCall Smith's multitude of fans and to the enormous community of wildly enthusiastic Austen aficionados.

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Title	:	Emma (The Austen Project #3)
Author	:	Alexander McCall Smith
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	April 7th 2015 by Pantheon (first published November 6th 2014)
Categories	:	Fiction. Romance. Contemporary. Retellings. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit

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Is there anything Alexander McCall Smith writes that isn't a breath of fresh air? This retelling of Jane Austen's Emma was delightful and very adroitly done. I love the character of Emma's father best of all. His little quirks and paranoid delusions were wonderful! I think I've known people with those beliefs but never all in the same person!Emma is the same as we've know before except now she drives a Mini Cooper and studied interior design. I really enjoyed this book.

I'm quitting this a third of the way through. I'm not sure what exactly the point is of a modern adaptation of Austen if so much of the language feels as though it's trying to ape her style. I assumed the point would be to retell these stories in a modern context, and, for me, that should include the voice of the novel as well. I waned to quit when I was 15% in and still on Mr. Woodhouse, a good background character but one that should stay there, and I finally had to give up.I was leery of this

After a couple of real disasters I promised myself I would not read any more books from the Austen Project. Then along came my favourite Austen novel Emma rewritten by one of my favourite authors Alexander McCall Smith and how could I resist? And I am so glad I didn't because I loved this book! McCall Smith chose to write the story exactly as Austen did just putting it in a modern time frame and expanding a little on the characters' back stories and their behaviours. It is all written in

Liked this re-telling of Emma a lot. It's just that Emma is not very likeable. McCall Smith's style is more subdued in this novel. I found myself missing his usual style a little. If you have not read Emma yet, this would be good and easy to read.

Im not sure a modern take on Austens classic was a good idea in this case. McCall Smith didnt exactly murder Emma, but he turned her/it into something rather silly that bore little resemblance to Austens wonderful original. I have enjoyed McCall Smiths books previously, his gentle, humorous musings on life in either Edinburgh or Botswana, but this was a disappointment. There were some OK scenes here and there but too many inane conversations and too many changes that didnt result in a modern

ALEXANDER McCall Smith is a brave man. A very brave man. How else can you explain his willingness, indeed his eagerness, to meddle with Emma, one of the most cherished of Jane Austen's novels?It's true that Mr McCall Smith left the country almost immediately after his modern retelling of Emma hit the bookshops, but I'm told his decision to publish and be absent wasn't an indication of doubt on his part as to the novel's critical reception but was actually because he needed to embark on a

Some folks do not enjoy retellings that is, a modern or adapted version of a classic. That got me thinking about why I do enjoy them. For me, most stories are retellings as they retell, from an authors perspective, a story that happened somewhere, sometime, somewhere.Sub sole nihil novi est. From what I have read, this phrase was first pulled from Ecclesiastes and translated as There is nothing new under the sun. I do realize there is more context to this that takes the meaning to a different