by Alexander McCall Smith · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007553860
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«Emma: A Modern Retelling» is a contemporary novel by Alexander McCall Smith, published by HarperCollins in paperback (368 pages, in English).
After college, Emma Woodhouse returns to Highbury to live with her father and start an interior design business. She believes she knows what is best for others, mentors the naive Harriet Smith, and socializes with Frank Churchill and the brilliant Jane Fairfax, while her friend George Knightley observes her mistakes with irony.
This novel is part of The Austen Project, a series of novels that reinterpret Jane Austen's classics in a modern key. The work was originally published on November 6, 2014.
It is suitable for fans of Alexander McCall Smith and for those who want to discover Austen's Emma in a contemporary setting.
Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was born and brought up in Southern Rhodesia and was formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and bioethics and served on related British and international committees. He has since become known as a fiction writer, with sales in English exceeding 40 million by 2010 and translations into 46 languages. He is known as the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The "McCall" derives from his great-great-grandmother Bethea McCall, who married James Smith at Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, in 1833.
