While Pride and Prejudice may sit at the top of many people’s favourite Jane Austen books, Emma has to be a contender for the title too. For me Emma has a little more bite, it isn’t quite as comfortable a read as Pride and Prejudice, and that makes it more interesting. In terms of lead characters Emma is right up there, she may be headstrong, snobbish, convinced she knows best, yet because of those characteristics, because she isn't perfect, she also feels so very real. Emma is a bright, beautifully written novel with real heart and I love it.
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Emma is Jane Austen's brilliant comedy of manners about intelligence, self-deception, social judgment, romance, and the dangerous confidence of a young woman who believes she understands everyone around her. Emma Woodhouse is wealthy, clever, privileged, and secure in her place at the centre of Highbury society. Convinced that she has a gift for arranging other people's lives, she turns matchmaking into a favourite occupation-only to discover that pride, vanity, affection, class, and desire are far less easily managed than she imagines.
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Emma is Jane Austen's brilliant comedy of manners about intelligence, self-deception, social judgment, romance, and the dangerous confidence of a young woman who believes she understands everyone around her. Emma Woodhouse is wealthy, clever, privileged, and secure in her place at the centre of Highbury society.
Emma features in the following genres: Literary Pick of the Month, Classic fiction: general and literary, General Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, Fiction
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Emma was written by Jane Austen and published by SMK Books an imprint of Wilder Publications
Emma has 366 pages
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