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Emma

Jane Austen

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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.…

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  • AuthorJane Austen
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #158
  • Length156,911 words · 10h 28m of reading
  • Chapters38
  • DictionaryNot yet generated
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-28

Contents

38 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

  1. 01Emma
  2. 02CHAPTER I
  3. 03CHAPTER II
  4. 04CHAPTER III
  5. 05CHAPTER IV
  6. 06CHAPTER V
  7. 07CHAPTER VI
  8. 08CHAPTER VII
  9. 09CHAPTER VIII
  10. 10CHAPTER IX
  11. 11CHAPTER X
  12. 12CHAPTER XI
  13. 13CHAPTER XII
  14. 14CHAPTER XIII
  15. 15CHAPTER XIV
  16. 16CHAPTER XV
  17. 17CHAPTER XVI
  18. 18CHAPTER XVII
  19. 19CHAPTER XVIII
  20. 20CHAPTER I
  21. 21CHAPTER II
  22. 22CHAPTER III
  23. 23CHAPTER IV
  24. 24CHAPTER V
  25. 25CHAPTER VI
  26. 26CHAPTER VII
  27. 27CHAPTER VIII
  28. 28CHAPTER IX
  29. 29CHAPTER X
  30. 30CHAPTER XI
  31. 31CHAPTER XII
  32. 32CHAPTER XIII
  33. 33CHAPTER XIV
  34. 34CHAPTER XV
  35. 35CHAPTER XVI
  36. 36CHAPTER XVII
  37. 37CHAPTER XVIII
  38. 38CHAPTER XIX

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