Even better, it was well reviewed and available as an ebook. A quick Internet search taught me that there was another Emma that I should read, one that was written originally as manga by a Japanese author. I didn’t feel like I’d gotten an authentic manga experience, since I’d read a book originally written for another format entirely and merely adapted to manga. This is how I learned that while Emma is not my favorite Austen novel, I still know it well enough to deeply miss some of the narrative passages that occurred in the original in between the scraps of dialogue.Īfter finishing that book, I was discontent. The text is reduced to the essential bits of dialogue from the original narrative, while the illustrations are tasked with conveying the meaning of all the remaining text. Unfortunately, the Manga Classics edition of Jane Austen’s Emma read as if it were a simplified storyboard of an Emma movie adaptation. The Manga Classics edition of Jane Austen’s Emma.
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