Emma - Jane Austen Reviews

This book was first published back in 1816, i read this book after my mother was raving about how good it was but it didnt have the same effect on me, i found it long winded and boring at points. Ok so the story goes, Emma is a young woman living in an upper class society in england who gets pleasure from matchmaking. Emma ...

The novel opens with Emma's father Mr Woodhouse complaining gently about their recent change in circumstances: Emma's best friend, who was once her governess, has recently married and moved about a mile away. Mr Woodhouse is a comic character who wants everything to stay exactly the same as it always has been, although he's sympathetically ...

"Emma" is an interesting novel that offers its readers something of a lecture on the importance of reading closely and reading well. it is a tale of misinterpretation, alrgely on the par of the young heroine who cannot read the intentions of those around her, and who is prone to all sorts of mistkaes based on misinterpretation. The plot ...

Let me introduce you to Emma Woodhouse, a "handsome, clever, and rich" young woman, who lives in the small town of Highbury with her nervous old father. Emma firmly believes she has no intention of marrying anyone but she's quite happy to engage in match-making schemes for her friends. She's lively and charming and quite used to ...

Jane Austen starts 'Emma' as if she's spitting plumstones into a bowl. Listen: "Emma Woodhouse, Handsome (ping), clever(ping), and rich (ping), with a comfortable home and happy disposition (ping, ping), seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence (ping), and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with ...

OK - you're a bit worried. You'd like to read some "classics" but think they might be boring or difficult. Let's sort that out straight away. The language in "Emma" is not too dissimilar to today's. It's at its most stilted when you read the direct speech of the characters, but even then, it's ...

I have read many of Jane Austens books and i found that 'Emma' is a well written book. Like Emma, Jane tells all the detail we need to know i feel that i could fall in love with the character and the surroundings. Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants ...

Jane Austen feared that nobody would like "Emma," a rather spoiled character with a tendency to be a bit of a know-it-all. Perhaps the reason we don't like Emma is because she reminds us too much of ourselves. Nevertheless, Emma has become one of my favorite characters, and if you enjoy classic romance stories, she'll probably ...

Though Persuasion is my sentimental favorite, I regard Emma as Austen's finest novel overall. She is at the top of her game and everything works: the dialogue, character development and, did I mention, the humor? While teaching Emma in my AP English class this year, I realized that many less talented readers read right over the irony and ...

I first read Emma as a teenager and found it difficult. It was also the first serious novel that I read twice - reading good novels twice is, of course, a thoroughly worthwhile activity, as Emma taught me. The second time I read it, I found it enthralling. Jane Austen is, I think, largely preoccupied with manners in most of her novels - ...

Not for Austen, the social commentaries for Dickens, but that is no bad thing when one is looking to be entertained. Emma is, in my opinion, a girl's novel. It is about Emma Woodhouse, a rather spoilt girl, with a doting father, with a penchant for arranging other people's lives. This doesn't make her unlikeable, as her ...

Depite my id, my real name is Emma and so I have always felt an obligation to read this book. I was given a copy for my 13th birthday and every year I tried to read it but got thoroughly bored after about 3 pages. Eventually i managed to plough through it when i was about 20 (yes, it took me that long) and i actually quite enjoyed ...