| Title | : | Emma |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0553234315 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780553234312 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 215 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1860 |
Another Lady has now at last fulfilled the promise of that novel. Her lively powers of invention have worked the unfolding mystery of Charlotte Brontë's two opening chapters into an exciting and poignant story. The characters grow in vitality and complexity while remaining true in spirit, tone and style to the original conception.
The wanton havoc wrought by Emma in the life of Mrs Chalfont, the narrator, is not the only proof of her ruthlessness; she plays a part, too, in the sufferings of the abandoned child, Martina. The affection which grows between Mrs Chalfont and Martina out of their mutual distress illumines this story, and Emma herself, with her inexplicable motives, her incomprehensible anger and her darkness of soul, develops into a character of whom Charlotte Brontë would have been proud.
Emma Reviews
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I am a fan of all 19th century novels named Emma.
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Claro que son solamente unos capítulos (Charlotte falleció antes de poder terminarlo) pero, creo yo, tenía mucho potencial... más allá de que Arthur opinara que su esposa estaba repitiéndose...
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Internet Archive
The Works of Charlotte Bronte:
1. The Professor
2. Emma
3. Poems
This fragment, the last literary effort of the author of 'Jane Eyre', appeared in the 'Cornhill Magazine' fro April, 1860, preceded by the following introduction from the pen of its editor, Mr. W.M. Thackeray, entitled: - Tje Last Sketch.
Charlotte Bronte was only able to write two chapters of her last and unfinished work.
Clare Boylan wrote
Emma Brown gave a final version of the above manuscript 50 years later, after Charlotte's death. To be checked. -
Emma, by Charlotte Brontë, is an unfinished novel. We only get two chapters. It’s a really fast read (less than an hour) but I’m sad Charlotte hadn’t the opportunity to write the whole thing. The beginning is really good and caught the reader right away
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won’t rate this embryo classic for it is only a couple chapters long, but giving this five stars in spirit. i loved the sliver of satire, and the mystery (!!!) but of course don’t have much matter to review, so here are my two favorite lines—1) “[...] her large leghorn hat shading such a face as fortunately had not its parallel on the premises” 2) “the misses wilcox, for instance, were not much less shallow than the china saucer which held their teacups” charlotte brontë i love you so much!
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This book is a continuation of Charlotte Bronte's last writing before she died. She only finished the first two chapters of this book, and it has been finished by "another lady". I am usually skeptical about modern authors trying to finish work from a classic author, but this was well done.
The writing doesn't exactly mimic Charlotte Bronte's writing style, but it does a fair job. The themes and plot have many elements that I would expect to find in a Bronte story. There is a gothic moodiness, plot twists, wild scenery, and of course, complex and compelling characters.
Mrs. Chalfont is a lonely widow who adopts an abandoned child and tries to penetrate the mystery of the child's true identity. With the help of Mr. Ellin, she embarks on a journey of discovery and intrigue to unravel the secrets the child is hiding. It is only when the ruthless Emma appears on the scene that the depths of crime and hatred become apparent, and only Mrs. Chalfont can save the innocent child she has come to love.
I loved the story so much! I was laughing and crying and clutching the book to my heart! The emotional power in the story is very reminiscent of Charlotte Bronte's style.
I figured out the big plot reveal on page 86, and it is not actually revealed until page 163. There are only four words on page 86 that made it plain, so I think if that clue had been removed, it would not have ruined the mystery too early. But even though I figured it out early, I still enjoyed seeing it all unfold for the characters.
Mrs. Chalfont is such a sweet and lonesome character. She is kind and generous and forgiving, but she hides secret pain and anguish in her heart. I just loved seeing how she interacts with the various heroes and villains, and how they are all astonished at her big heart.
Mr. Ellin is a bit of an enigma. I'm not sure that his personality in the rest of the book really fits with the first two chapters. He is a complex person; private and secretive about his own business, but also sociable and charming in company. He is languid at times until you almost think he is lazy, but then he'll be springing into action with energy and determination. He certainly kept my interest.
The elusive Emma is the titular character, but she is only in one scene. The story is all about how her anger and hatred have affected the lives of so many people. We see people's reactions when her name is mentioned, how the county gossips about her, how people's memories of her are skewed, how her family try to shield her and make excuses for her. She is a force to be reckoned with at every turn.
Overall, I enjoyed this book so much! I only took off one star because the prose isn't quite the same at Bronte's, but pretty close; and because I figured out the big reveal too early. -
The first two chapters were written by Charlotte Brontë shortly before her death, and this version of the novel was completed by Constance Savery in 1980. For details about the other version of this novel as completed by Clare Boylan in 2003, please see
Emma Brown.
5 stars for Chapters 1 – 2 by Charlotte Brontë
The beginning of a masterpiece, Charlotte’s writing mesmerized me completely. As in
Jane Eyre,
Villette, and
Shirley, she focuses on every woman’s need for a life purpose, the craving to find a “quest”: "We all seek an ideal in life." And, as always, Charlotte is fascinated by the interplay of various personalities and their effect on human relationships: “Say no more to her. Beware, or you will do more mischief than you think or wish. That kind of nature is very different from yours. It is not possible that you should like it; but let it alone.” To make it even more delicious, she introduces a mystery in which a little girl wearing rich furs and silks is brought to a boarding school in a fine carriage by her well-dressed “father”, but when the headmistress writes to him the letter is returned to her: no such person, no such house. Who is this little girl really, how will her tuition be paid, and what in the world should they do with her?
4 stars for Chapters 3 – 17 by Constance Savery (also known as “Another Lady”)
Constance Savery’s completion of the novel is lovely and compelling. The eloquence of her prose doesn’t quite match Charlotte Brontë’s but it’s beautiful all the same, and her style stays true to the Victorian era. There are waking dreams and sleeping dreams. In which did I pass the night? I have never been able to answer that question. All I know is that till dawn I glided alone, now over the purple moors that surrounded Grewby Towers, now among the grassy mounds and crumbling headstones of Grewby churchyard, always questing, always seeking, for some precious thing I had lost. We remain in the English countryside throughout the novel, in the kind and faithful hands of Mrs. Chalfont (the first-person narrator whom Charlotte Brontë introduced to us in the first chapter) and the mystery reaches a satisfying resolution.
Sadly, this book is out of print but I was able to buy a used copy from AbeBooks.com. I believe it’s truly worthy of being reprinted for the enjoyment of fellow Charlotte Brontë devotees. -
Sign me up for any classic called Emma!
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"[...] Hundreds of those who, like myself, recognized and admired that master-work of a great genius, will look with a mournful interest and regard and curiosity upon this, the last fragmentary sketch from the noble hand which wrote Jane Eyre"
- William Makepeace Thackeray, The Last Sketch.
Charlotte was able to write only two chapters before her tragic demise in 1855. The story is narrated by a widow named Mrs. Chalfont who talks about a ladies' school owned by the Wilcox sisters.The plot progresses with the arrival of an apparently rich heiress named Matilda Fitzgibbon in the institution. We are introduced with characters of the local gentleman Mr. Ellin and a dauntless pupil of the very institution named Diana.The story takes a turn as false identity of this timid and shy girl comes out and Mr. Ellin ventures to untangle it. A couple of paragraphs follow these incidents so far mentioned and the reader comes to a dead end.
As I reached the last line of this fragment, my heart swelled and before I could realise anything, tears were streaming down my cheeks. I grew pensive for a while and sank in thoughts about this promising work and what Brontë would have written had she lived. Author Clare Boylan gave a final version of this manuscript one hundred fifty years later in her novel 'Emma Brown'. -
Vill verkligen veta vad som skulle ha hänt!
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სუფთა საპნის ოპერაა დრამატული ეფექტებით. მაინც ჩემთვის რთული დასაჯერებელია 15 წლის გამწარება, ამას მოყოლებული მწარე მოგონებები და სხვა რამ, ასე დაუფიქრებლად აპატიო ადამიანს. ემას კი ერთი მათრახი უნდოდა...
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It's just so... unique. It's humour is funny at times, but the story is another one of a girl who is a snob falling in love. For others it could definitely be a 5 star. But then again, the other books like this are probably based on this book because this may have been the first to have someone like this.
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Victorian literature is the literature produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), tend to be idealized portraits of difficult lives, perseverance and love in civil society….
The main elements in Victorian and pre-Victorian literature, are mostly hidden loves, jelousy, planned marriages for money and social positions, women’s situation both in family and the society, and the roll of Church which dominate all over the society. One can not deny the roll of Victorian novels, specially works by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Jane Austen, William Thackeray, Bronte’s sisters, George Eliot and others…effectioning on all social aspects, changing the modern society, carrying up moral and etic, law and behaviour. Novels in particular, became ubiquitous, and created legacy appeal for human rights … -
Is there a female alive that has not at some point been a bit of an Emma? And hasn't every female experienced bafflement due to an Emma placing her, at some point in her journey, in a situation with a member of the opposite sex that brought on a feeling of complete and utter mortification? THAT is why I love this book. I have lived the roles from various perspectives, and I have observed Emma in the lives of others.
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De första två kapitlen från det som blev Charlottes sista roman. Mycket intressant början, hade med stor glädje fortsatt läsa om boken blivit klar!
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"Emma. Due capitoli. Perché tradurti? Cosa può apprezzare di te il lettore che macina centinaia di pagine, mentre tu ne copri a malapena una ventina? La risposta è racchiusa in una sola parola : desiderio" (nota del traduttore).
Pubblicato insieme a “La storia di Willie Ellin” grazie alla casa editrice Flower-ed per la collana Five Yards, “Emma” è l’ultimo romanzo a cui lavorò la Bronte ormai provata dalle perdite famigliari - e narra le vicende di una giovane apparentemente molto ricca e studentessa in collegio.
Per forza di cose manca del completo appagamento che può dare un lavoro ultimato, sono solo venti pagine, ma indubbiamente predisposta e con del potenziale tangibile.
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Så välskriven! Det är verkligen sorgligt att författaren inte hade möjlighet att slutföra denna.. Tror nämligen den hade haft potential att bli lika välkänd och klassisk som Jane Eyre har blivit över tid.
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This was as well written as a Jane Austen. What a treat.
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It is unfortunate that Charlotte Bronte passed away before she could finish Emma. I would have liked to have read the story she wanted to tell.
This story, however, is merely tolerable. The reason for which can be laid entirely at the door of "Another Lady." I don't know what she was thinking; at times it almost seems as if the story is going to plunge into a gothic bodice-ripping romance instead of Bronte's moodier fare. Not that I have anything against bodice-rippers, I just prefer to have them not occur in one of Bronte's stories.
Aside from the tone of the story, however, I found that there were - dare I say, hints? - at sinister goings-on that were never revealed. The one line I recall very clearly which has puzzled me ever since I read it is, "I began to be afraid of this child with the long memory." What? This line occurs three pages from the end of the book. What is that supposed to do? Make me think that there is a sequel coming? -
SPOILERS
Brontë started writing it before her death, but she didn't make it far and most of the book was written by Another Lady.
Quite fast paced, lot of twists and turns typical to Victorian era. Writing style did remember Brontë, so kudos for that.
Must admit wasn't fan of the ending - seemed little bit odd that after everything Mrs. Chalfont and Martina forgave Emma so much that they named a new baby after her. But ok. What wasn't believable at all was Emma's, who showed from the start psychopathic tendencies, change - the person who had never felt sorry towards anybody and showed so much cruelty, would at the end send a letter "i am sorry". This unfortunately ruined a book for me a little as it didn't seem to fit to the main theme. -
THis is a very short intro into what was to be Charlotte Bronte's last novel. Unfortunately she did not get very far into it before she met her untimely death. I have read "Emma Brown" which was taken from the first few chapters that Charlotte wrote and then made into a story that the new author came up with. I love Emma Brown, so I wanted to read what Charlotte herself had written. I really wish she could've finished Emma - I would've liked to see what her ideas for Emma and the other characters in the book were, but am glad to have at least been able to read the few short pages we have and to have been able to read the newer, tied in Emma Brown.
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Absolutně by mě nenapadlo, že se mi tato knížka bude až tak moc líbit, a přece. Je to společenský historický román, kde opravdu chcete číst dál a dál a rozkrývat rodinná tajemství z minulosti. Čte se s velkou lehkostí, překlad se mi zdá být také zdařilý a závěrečné rozklíčování příběhu se mi velmi líbilo. Ač je kniha z většiny dopsána až po smrti autorky, tak přesto jsem tam cítila i Janu Eyrovou a prostě autorčin rukopis. Za mě můžu určitě vřele doporučit, knížka má vše potřebné a podstatné, příběh, pointu, rozuzlení, najdeme tam lásku, nenávist, pochopení, odpuštění, vysvětlení, prostě všechno.
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Obviously, one can't really call this a book by Charlotte Bronte, as she only wrote the first two chapters before she died, and it was finished by "Another Lady" (Constance Savery) 100+ years later. As such, we have no way of knowing how Charlotte Bronte had planned on this story playing out, and I think we can safely assume that it would not have been identical to what the finished product turned out to be, but I think she would have been pleased with the result. Likeable protagonists, twisting turning story, and a happy ending. I'm glad I read this.
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This is the first time I've read an unfinished work, a fragment, that I really wanted so much to continue. It will of course have to remain a mystery, but even in its truncated form it is a very good representation of the characters, particularly of the headmistress Miss Wilcox. And, it is a very good introduction to the works of Charlotte Bronte. It's the first I've read of her books but it will not be the last.
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This is a partial manuscript at the end of The Professor
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This’s the first novel I read by Jane Austen, wanted to start somewhere and I didn’t want to go with Pride and Prejudice for some reason, so I went with Emma and it was a decent choice. although I really like the novel, there were some cons that kind of spoiled the joy for me, one of them was the length of the novel. It is pretty long for an unknown reason, I don’t think that I need some of the chapters in this novel they’re in my opinion unnecessary. Other than that I think everything was quite pleasing starting from the protagonist’s personality of being a real life-like character that has faults and learn from these faults and you can mark the spiritual growth there which I most like about her. I also loved the turn of events and the foreshadowing she threw in the last chapters so everything made perfect sense at the end. Alas, I loved the novel it was a joy to read and would pick Persuasion by Jane Austen next because I don’t think I can have enough of her writings now.
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Considerato l'ultimo scritto di Charlotte Brontë, Emma è l'abbozzo, due capitoli, di quello che avrebbe potuto essere forse una nuova bellissima storia brontiana.
In queste poche pagine è già delineato l'embrione di una storia con tutti gli ingredienti che l'avrebbero resa l'ennesima perla che l'autrice della quale l'anno scorso è stato celebrato il Bicentenario dalla nascita.
Completato dall'ultima lettera all'amica Ellen Nussey e un apparato documentale e di note con questo testo la casa editrice flower-ed amplia la già ampia offerta editoriale, aggiungendo un ulteriore tassello alla sua ultima collana Five Yards dedicata ai Capolavori della Letteratura Inglese e Americana , finora inediti in italiano. -
Vem är Matilda Fitzgibbon? Det är den ständiga frågan som man som läsare vill veta när man läst denna novell. Då man som läsare får följa händelsen ur flera synvinklar och perspektiv om vem denna mystiska arvtagerskas ursprung är? Hen blir behandlad som en drottning med alla tänkbara förmåner och privilegium. Frågan är om det är rättvist gentemot alla andra eleverna på flickskolan som hens far lämnat hen för att bli uppfostrad till en dam av högre klass? Novellen är lockande då man gärna vill veta mer och handlingen är för kort för en novell. För att sammanfatta novellen med några ord: Klassamhälle & drama & identitet.
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I really wished for more with this completed version of Bronte’s incomplete last novel. The premise and writing by Bronte is impeccable. Unfortunately I was able to tell where the original ended and the “completion” began. Taken as it’s own story, the tale was not bad. However, it is nothing like Bronte would have achieved. The plot was a bit sensational, the romance started out sweet then was hurried up at the end, I could see the the plot twists a mile coming, and the ending was completely anticlimactic and unsatisfying. In short, this book lacks the depth of Jane Eyre but it is fine if you aren’t expecting too much and want something fun to read.
