Emma of 83rd Street
Book description
In this witty and romantic debut novel, Jane Austen’s Emma meets the misadventures of Manhattan’s modern dating scene as two lifelong friends discover that, in the search for love, you sometimes don’t have to look any further than your own backyard.
Beautiful, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse has lived twenty-three…
Why read it?
1 author picked Emma of 83rd Street as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I adore Jane Austen and everything she ever wrote and every film ever made from her works. Sadly, there were only six novels (Sanditon, the seventh, was unfinished). So when anything Austen crosses my path I grab it, even while knowing nothing will ever rise to the original Jane.
I came across this takeoff of Emma by happenstance, and didn’t have high expectations. A modernized version (not again)…on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. But the authors swiftly drew me in, and I was soon rooting for the 21st-century version of Emma and her elusive love interest, Knightley.
I read this light,…
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