Emma
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Emma
Jane Austen
Literature
James Mustich
Aug 9, 2018
At twenty, Emma Woodhouse—“handsome, clever, and rich”—knows that she’s the most fantastic woman in Highbury, and nothing amuses her more than meddling in other people’s affairs. But although she has good intentions, her matchmaking goes seriously awry, wrecking a perfectly good engagement for her friend Harriet. Only after a spate of social disasters does Emma realize both her own failings and her lover for her dashing neighbor. Always courteous to the reader, toward her characters Austen shows a sympathy that remains fond even when she is exposing their foolishness, a task from which she never shies. Emma is one of English literature’s most sparkling comedies of manners, and one of the most telling depictions we have of the limits of charm and the shock of self-recognition.
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DeAnn Rossetti
Oct 28, 2018
I love Jane Austen, if for nothing else than for her ferocious wit and her female protagonists who are always stronger than they know.
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Augusta Noble
Nov 6, 2018
I remember loving Emma because she was so unlike other protagonists from what I'd read of this time period. Her flaws are loud and proud.
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Windy Cutler
Nov 25, 2018
Sometimes you want to shake Emma, but ultimately, she is not impervious to correction and recognition of her faults; Jane Austen has a way of making you identify with her characters, as, for instance, Miss Bates, who talks too much and knows she talks too much, and Emma, who thoughtlessly teases Miss Bates for talking too much.
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Sue Grist Baum
Jan 4, 2019
She excels at character development...more than anyone else. Period.
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Leonor Barrio de la Vega
Jan 16, 2019
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Megan Butland
Jan 29, 2019
Read, loved.
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Leslie Jensen Williams
Jan 29, 2019
Jane Austen’s tongue in cheek style always pleases.
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James Happ
Feb 4, 2019
Love these classic stories about how women come to terms with the mores and their oppression of the 19th Century in the UK
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Joleen Holm Soderberg
Feb 7, 2019
Love!
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Rebecca Pool
Mar 16, 2019
Emma is Austen’s most “real” heroine. She both endearing and annoying, never boring.
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Matthew
Mar 29, 2019
Excellent Jane Austen
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Olivia Holmes
May 25, 2019
Jane Austen never disappoints.
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Kevin J. Maness
Jun 16, 2019
Sharp social critique with humor.
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Parkinii
Jun 19, 2019
Austin takes personal issues of love and family and makes them universal
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Nicole Hardy
Dec 15, 2019
Greatly enjoyable and fuller than any movie version. Very satisfying.
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Debra Hanff
May 23, 2020
Has been called her most perfect book.
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Kimberly Hickey
Apr 9, 2021
loved it
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Wayne Giacalone
Jun 9, 2022
I find Emma to be one of Austin's most frustrating yet fully fleshed out characters.
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Stefanie Mclellan
Jan 27
Austin’s books are fun
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Kati
Apr 8
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Pat Costello
May 10
Everyone should read Emma by Jane Austen because this novel gives readers the clearest look into Austen's crystalline, cynical skewering of the superficial manners and standards of her place and time. Besides that, it is a lot of fun to read! Readers should compare what the characters say to what they do and then judge the characters. Do you think that Austen agrees with your judgement? How much have people in the Western world changed in the last two hundred years? Then compare the ease with which you read the English language of 1815 with the difficulty we have with the English language of 1600 in Shakespeare's dramas. There are so many ways to enjoy this novel. I envy everyone who is reading Jane Austen for the first time.
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Erika
Jun 28
Classic.
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Kim L.
Aug 2
Jane Austen is always worth reading
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