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few weeks ago
As usual, Jane Austen doesn't disappoint. Emma is an impressive, funny, charming, beautifully written story about nineteenth-century English society. Impressive because, in spite of the limited scope of storytelling in this time, Austen manages to keep the same basic premise fresh and engaging. In my copy's introduction, it presents that in Emma Woodhouse, Austen set out to create a...more
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few weeks ago
Emma Woodhouse is not a particularly likable character in the beginning of this novel (compounded, for our age, by her views on the hierarchichal class structure of the 19th century). But the consequences of her over-confident meddling in others' lives and relations lead her to realise her shortcomings and her mistakes. This is Emma's emotion coming-of-age story, and it leaves her far more...more
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few weeks ago
Spoiler Warning>>> Emma Woodhouse, flawed but lovable, takes up matchmaking and finds all her attempts for her friend Harriet Smith unsuccessful. First she has her reject Robert Martin while trying to set her up with Mr. Elton. That falls through when Mr. Elton declares his attachment for Emma, and, upon rejection, immediately marries another woman. Then, through a misunderstanding, she thinks...more
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Nya
few weeks ago
Hilarious, romantic, and a must read, Emma tells the story of a young woman who takes it upon herself to be a matchmaker, and match her friends up with men they met not necessarily feel for. But when she encourages her friend Harriet to feel for a man, and then finds out that it is the man (Mr. Knightly) that Emma is in love with, she is caught in a trap of her own making. Extremely well written...more
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few weeks ago
Quite good, but not as good as Pride and Prejudice. Emma just seems like a spoiled know-it-all with nothing to do except ruin the lives of others with her patronizing ridiculous schemes that shows she has little respect for others (until she gets her come uppance, which really isn't that wonderful). Mr. Darcy>Knightley, and Lizzy>>>Emma. Pride and Prejudice is much better.
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  • ISBN-10: 8437615607
  • ISBN-13: 9788437615608
  • ISBN-10: 1598186787
  • ISBN-13: 9781598186789
  • ISBN-10: 1572705329
  • ISBN-13: 9781572705326
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