What is the book "Emma" by Jane Austen about and how many pages is it? Don't give it away!?

Question

I want to know what the book is about and how long it is (pages) along with these books:
-Catch 22
-This boy's life
-The Chosen

Please dont give them away! I just want to decide if they are books i'd be interested in and if anyone would recommend them. Thanks!

Answer 1

Just saw the movie last night. If you've seen Clueless with Alicia Silverstone, the story is the same.

Answer 2

Emma Jane Austen Pages

Answer 3

Jane Austen wrote Emma in 1851. The novel is aproximately 400 pages--quite long indeed, but when you bought a novel in 1851, you expected many days worth of pleasure from it.

Imagine the Victorian age, with everyone dressed to a "T" and possessing the greatest of manners. Now, imagine a twenty year old woman who lived during that time and had the best of everything: Emma Woodhouse. Emma makes a new friend who is less fortunate than she, and she is going to "makeover" her friend and help her advance in the world by choosing the right husband for her---that is where all the fun, mystery, and confusion begins. Emma believes she is an authority on matchmaking and matters of the heart, yet will she be so wise as to find her own true love when he comes seeking her? And, is she really that good at reading others? Without giving it all away, let's just say that Emma is probably the worst of all matchmakers with the best of intentions... It has it's superior moments--drags at times, but if you appreciate the period and can relate to people like Emma in your own day and age, you will really love this novel.

Catch 22, written by Joseph Heller has approximately 460 pages. Reviews from Amazon.com describe it as a "satire on the murderous insanity of war." Yossarian is described as a "wise-*** bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament." It is a difficult read, but you will like it if you can make it to the end.

This Boy's Life, by Tobias Wolff has 288 pages. I have never read the book; however, you can get a synopsis here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802136680/sr=1-1/qid=1154388631/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-5814038-4865516?ie=UTF8&s=books I think it looks pretty interesting, so I just ordered a copy for myself, thanks to your question!

The Chosen, written by Chaim Potok, has 304 pages, and the synopsis from Amazon is as follows:
In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a Modern Orthodox Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe), the young men form a deep, if unlikely, friendship. Together they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts, the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to emerge in the U.S., loss, love, and the journey to adulthood. The intellectual and spiritual clashes between fathers, between each son and his own father, and between the two young men, provide a unique backdrop for this exploration of fathers, sons, faith, loyalty, and, ultimately, the power of love. (This is not a conventional children's book, although it will move any wise child age 12 or older, and often appears on summer reading lists for high school students.)

I have never read the book, but I have heard only good things from people who have read it.

Good luck finding one that suits you! Good reading!

Answer 4

The book "Emma" in the Penguin Classics edition has 453 pages, not including the notes. It may seems a lot, but I can tell you that it's very easy to read, because the story is captivating and there are a lot of conversations that make the reading faster and the novel more lively.
It's a story of a young, wealthy, clever, charming and beautiful lady, Emma Woodhouse, who enjoys interfering in the romantic life of others and likes arranging matches for other people. Of course not all her planes have the effects she expected...
I highly recommend to read!
I can't tell anything about the others since I haven't read them.

Answer 5

My edition of EMMA is 367 pages. I loved the film. It's about a young matchmaker and all the people's intermingled lives. So I bought and read the book. The trouble I had was Jane Austin writes lots if conversation. She begins with people's names, then continues for pages and pages with pronouns. I would forget who was speaking what and would have to go back to check. It took me longer than I wanted to read it.

But ohMyGosh, in the film Jeremy Northam as Mr. Knightly! Ooh, too yummy :-) Watch the film first. It wil be helpful.

Answer 6

The book is approx 300-400 pages long

Emma Woodhouse is a handsome, clever, rich young woman in Regency England. She lives with Mr. Woodhouse, her father, and has — as the novel begins — just attended the marriage of Miss Taylor, her old governess. Having introduced Miss Taylor to her future husband Mr. Weston, Emma finds that she rather likes matchmaking. Emma tries to match her new friend, Harriet Smith (a sweet but simple girl of seventeen of unknown parentage) to the local minister, Mr. Elton; this plan backfires when it turns out that Mr. Elton aspires to greatly better himself by marrying Emma— not, as she had mistakenly thought, the poor and socially inferior Harriet. After Emma turns down his proposals, Mr. Elton goes on holiday. Harriet fancies herself heartbroken, though Emma does her best to convince Harriet that Mr. Elton (who will reveal himself to be more and more arrogant and pompous as the story continues) is beneath them both....etc etc

Answer 7

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Yea Right ! ........It's a book called 'Common sense, Rationality and individual thinking' ! I ask you......A 'Thiest' joking about "Books of Pages" ! ! I fail to understand how intelligent people embrace religion.

Answer 8

Okay. It's a fairly long book, my copy is 450 pages. (But it has pretty large print.)

The story is about a woman, Emma, who is a bit of a failure as a matchmaker. She tries to set her friend up with a guy who's really in love with her. Then, this guy shows up. He's really cool- you know, dresses nice, good manners, etc. They have a bit of a romance growing between them, but then she meets Mr. Knightly, who is way more fun, and, since she's gorgeous and unaffected, he falls in love with her. Can you guess what happens next? Probably. Kinda predictable, but fun.

Answer 9

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1816, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like."

Numbers of pages vary given the copy you buy or take out from the library, but Amazon.com gives it as having 432 pages.

Catch-22 is a 1961 novel by American novelist Joseph Heller. It was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1970.

The novel follows Captain John Yossarian, a fictional World War II US Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier, and a large number of other characters during World War II. Most events in the book occur while the airmen of the Fighting 256th (or "two to the fighting eighth power") squadron are based on the island of Pianosa, west of Italy. Many events in the book are described repeatedly, from differing points of view, so that the reader learns more about the event with each iteration. The pacing of Catch-22 is frenetic, its tenor is intellectual, and its humor is largely absurd, but with grisly moments of realism interspersed.

Number of pages according to Amazon.com is 464 pages.

This Boy's Life is an autobiographical novel by Tobias Wolff first published in 1989. It describes the author's adolescence as he wanders the continental United States with his itinerant mother. The first leg of their journey takes them from Florida to Utah, where Mom, fleeing an abusive partner, hopes to get rich quick finding uranium (they do not). Eventually Wolff's mother becomes involved with Dwight Hansen (see below), and they settle in Concrete, Washington, north of Seattle, a place of natural beauty and, in their case, more than its share of personal desolation.

Number of pages 288.

There are three books by the title of "The Chosen"...Here are the two that seem to be most likely what you are looking for:
The Chosen (1999) is a fantasy novel by Ricardo Pinto, and also his first novel. It is the first part of the The Stone Dance of the Chameleon series. It describes how Carnelian leaves his home because his father needs to be present in the capital. The chosen or Masters are the tall humanoids of the ruling class. In the Locus Poll award, Best First Novel category, it ranked 14 [1].

Number of pages couldn't be found.


The Chosen is a novel by Chaim Potok published in 1967. It is about two teenage Jewish boys who form a friendship, though they come from different worlds. It is a first-person narrative from the point of view of Reuven Malter.

Number of pages 304

Answer 10

I don't remember how many pages, but it's a great book. It will definitely make you laugh. The movie 'Clueless' was based on it. Catch 22 is depressing, IMHO; the othre two I haven't read.