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EMMA
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EMMA

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A comedy of manners, Emma portrays the spoilt, snobbish, yet charming Emma Woodhouse as she delightfully interferes in the relationships of others without taking much notice of her own heart. Although quick to make prejudgments and decisions, Emma is eventually able to notice her mistakes, and it is this revelation that makes

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Release dateNov 6, 2017
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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is one of Jane Austin's most fun books. Emma is one of Austin's typical Can't-see-the-nose-on-her-face heroine, and her misadventures are quite entertaining.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Even though many people I know who have read the book dislike the main character, I liked her very much. She wasn't nearly as perfect as Elizabeth or Elinor, but it was her many flaws that made her so appealing to me. She just seemed more real. I found the book very witty and loved reading it.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Oddly, not as readable as Sense and Sensibility. I found myself honestly not caring about many of the characters in the book, though somehow I adored the movie with Gwyneth Paltrow. Really disappointing.I hope to try and read it again some time in the future. Maybe I'll like it better then.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    My favorite book by my favorite author.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Emma is a lovable character even with all her faults and misjudgments. She seems to be forever misjudging people and putting her own ideas in place of the reality. She attempts to match make on behalf of her friends but does not do so well at it. In the end it is her own match that secures the happy ending.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    One of my favorite Jane Austin book. Emma Woodhouse is funny and captivating. I love to see as she finds her place in the world and finding love right under her nose. As with all of the Austin books, we see a world that is long since forgotten in modern society but the message is still true. Excellent read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Smart, enjoyable read. Not much exuberant passion is displayed by Austen, but it lays beneath the words.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    As can be assumed, this is one of my favourite books! Emma Woodhouse is a typical Austen heroine- flawed- but unlike the other heroines, she doesn't mess up her own life, but the lives of almost everyone else around her. From her misideas on love and romance to her careless tongue, Emma causes more damage and emotional upheval than a young, rich, well-intentioned woman should. In the final analysis though, Emma Woodhouse finds true love for herself, leaving everyone else to sort out their lives and make their own happiness.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Jane Austen's fourth published work, and a little different from the earlier novels in having a flawed heroine. Emma is spoilt and gets things wrong - making her more realistic than earlier leading characters. Other characters in the book are also vividly drawn - the hypochondriac father, the slightly careless mother (Emma's sister) etc. Austen continues to demonstrate her talent for "describing, not telling" in which she minimises the input of the omniscient narrator and allows the events and conversation to tell the story - very modern. Read as ebook March 2011.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is my second favorite Austen novel (after Pride & Prejudice, of course). A matchmaker (Emma) proclaims she will never get married but eventually falls in love and succombs to marriage in the most elegant way. Perfectly Austen.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I rated this high because I appreciate it from a historic literary standpoint, but I HATED THIS BOOK.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I love electronics, cars, and all things made available by modern technology. But reading Emma (or any Austen, really) makes me want to live back in the 1800's. So lovely.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Emma Woodhouse is a typical Austen heroine- flawed- but unlike the other heroines, she doesn't mess up her own life, but the lives of almost everyone else around her. From her misideas on love and romance to her careless tongue, Emma causes more damage and emotional upheval than a young, rich, well-intentioned woman should. In the final analysis though, Emma Woodhouse finds true love for herself, leaving everyone else to sort out their lives and make their own happiness. Hard to know why such idleness is fasinating. I listened to this on an audio addition so Emma followed me all around town to my great delight.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I think Emma was the first Austen novel that I ever read, and it has only grown better with each re-reading. The story of a girl as she comes of age in regency England, it touches on the many issues facing women in that period - gender roles, class and social climbing, education, family values, and proper behavior in public and private in this socially proscriptive society. Austen does a fantastic job of drawing you into this world and illuminating daily life in her society.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I almost didn't finish this book, it is no secret that this is not my favourite Austen book.

    I will say the story and moral would have been a heavy hitter back in the day but the facts being that we are living in a different age the thinly veiled lesson is just tiresome to read.
    While both our main characters have redeeming parts they are not neared charming as any other Austen leads. Maybe that makes them more real and that is one reason why I rated it a 3 when I most definitely did not want to, but being honest looking at the book for all it actually is I knew I could not fairly rate this book any less than 3 stars
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I think this was the first Jane Austen book that I have read. I had no idea what the story was going to be about before reading but I really enjoyed it. It was interesting to read about a match maker who has been setting up her friends. Emma reminded me of someone I could have known in my real life. She's not perfect although she thinks we has a great knack for setting people up. I thought it was interesting how she ended up getting married herself. I didn't really see her as a good match for her future husband. It seems like that part of the story wasn't planned out before the book started to be written. But all in all, I did enjoy this book and would love to read more by this author.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I probably would have liked Emma more if I had finished it. . .It was alright. I mean, I had some difficulty around the middle section of it, it kind of slowed down and I STILL cannot get around the old-fashioned language of it. I'll have to read a paragraph like 10 times before I understand.Great story, though. Maybe I'll read it again when I'm a little more intelligent.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This was my first Jane Austen book, and also the first book that I ever owned (my grandfather got it for me when I was born), although definitely not the first book that I read (it took me 14-15 years for that). Because Emma isn't as perfect as Elizabeth Bennett (Pride & Prejudice) or Anne Wentworth (Persuasion), it's a little harder to like her completely. In fact, I found her annoying at first. But over time, one grows to appreciate Emma's complexity and how real she is. Definitely Austen's most mature work.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It's hard to read this and not compare it to Clueless from time to time, but on the whole I thoroughly enjoyed it. Not Austen's best certainly, but entertaining nonetheless.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Not my favourite of Austen's books, certainly, and I cannot see the attraction in the eponymous heroine. Furthermore, the book feels terribly over-long, and when the big reveal arrives, as it does in all of Austen's fiction, it is particularly unsurprising.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Jane Austen. Enough said - the greatest of romance writers.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This started off quite well, and the constant misunderstandings by Emma Woodhouse of the romantic intentions of others quite comical. However, I found too many of the characters difficult to distinguish in my mind (my favourite was probably Emma's hapless, hypochondriac father), and they lacked the colourful nature of the more eclectic cast of characters in Mansfield Park. So it was a bit of a struggle in places.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I have read all of her completed works and most of her juvenalia. It is not one of her popular novels because of the heroine but that is the challenge to see the good in Emma as well as her class snobbery. I have it in the Penguin edition as I have the other completed books.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I always thought I wasn't an Austen fan, but Emma made me rethink my position. Far more engaging than Pride and Prejudice, imo.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I really enjoyed reading Emma. I liked it better than Pride and Prejudice, which I adore. However, it took a while (forever) to get into. In true Jane Austen style, too many characters were introduced in the beginning of the book. Then it was hard to tell where Emma, as a character, was actually going. After some ambivalence with this book, I realized that Emma is a story about a flawed protagonist. Once I embraced this fact, Emma became a much easier and interesting read. Advice: Try giving it 75-100 pages before giving up. It just takes a while to get going.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I just have trouble carrying the least bit about Miss Emma. She may be more likable than "Twilight's" Bella, but they both are utterly self-involved twits.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Emma was delightful. I enjoyed it very much. Emma is strong willed and loves to play match maker. Everything she does ends in disaster, and it's hilarious. Poor Harriet and Mr. Knightly, Emma really does make a mess of things. However, in typical Austen fashion things work out in the end.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Emma Woodhouse is delusional living in her contemporary society of Highbury, England. Caught up in her own conceit of being a "good doer" she makes judgment calls that in the end benefit no one and only cause a myriad of problems to arise. She becomes tangled up in match making only to find herself falling in love which she swore never to do. Most of her problems could simply be avoided if she would have just kept her nose out of other people's business. In the end everything comes together and all live happily ever after as always.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Emma, Emma, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. (Until you get over yourself, that is.) And the great thing is, the story's written so brilliantly that even while you're wishing you could wring the title character's neck, you're having the time of your life reading about her.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I thought Emma was very witty. While not my absolute favorite of Jane Austin's, still an enjoyable read.

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