Emma
Jane Austen, 1815
416 pages
Read in 2010
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🔽 Summary and quick note 🔽
✔ Rich and beautiful Emma loves matchmaking but vows never to marry
✔ Classic love story about her own story and coming of age, with English humour
★★★★☆ Famous, classic love story from Austen. Emma learns about her own feelings and it's a coming of age story as well as a love story. 200 years on, it's still relatable for and loved by today's readers.
🔽 Book review 🔽
In the UK you can get some of these classic books cheaply, so a great excuse to try out good old English classics.
The story is famous, Emma is young, rich and beautiful but she's not interested in marriage herself, instead she enjoys doing matchmaking for people around her, without being asked to.
She then realises about her own feelings and gets her happy ending, it's simple as that, simple but loved.
Very English, very posh, you might say good old England, but there are still people like these so you also learn about contemporary English society.
It's not boring or difficult, even if it was written 200 years ago, it's rather funny, definitely humorous in English way, that is, very often awkward.
Readers today can easily relate to the characters, no wonder they keep making films out of this book.
I can't say it's my type, but still it's good, of course it's good, it's Jane Austen.
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Emma (Wordsworth Classics)
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