How to Read Jane Austen's Emma
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\\u201cI am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,\\u201d Jane Austen declared about Emma Woodhouse, the only heroine of her six novels to earn its title. The first novel in English written in a free indirect style, Emma has the lasting effect of making novels the standard form for readers to empathize with characters who may be very unlike ourselves.
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