
Emma
Description of book
Arrogant, self-willed and egotistical, Emma is Jane Austen’s most unusual heroine. Her interfering ways and inveterate matchmaking are at once shocking and comic. She is ‘handsome, clever and rich’ and has ‘a disposition to think too well of herself’. When she decides to introduce the humble Harriet Smith to the delights of genteel society and to find her a suitable husband, she precipitates herself and her immediate circle into a web of misunderstanding and intrigue, from which no-one emerges unchanged. Juliet Stevenson, an incomparable reader, is for many the voice of Jane Austen
Ratings & reviews
4.4
★★★★☆162 ratings
4.6
★★★★☆114 ratings
This book feels so full of everything and goes on slowly, which is why I don't like as much the first half as the rest of the book. One of the reasons being, how Emma is, but by halfway she shows great changes in her character and I like the rest of it, and she doesn't just suddenly become perfect, no, she still makes some mistakes but she's young and can be forgiven that much. We don't get into other characters head, but they're very comical and interesting, kind of shallow too, sometimes. But I could see some similarities with people I know. Take miss Bates for example, she's such a chatterbox and could get kind of annoying, but she's good-natured and funny. All in all it's a good book, and partly my critics could be because I'm not so used to reading and listening in English. I shall get back to this book in Finnish sometime later.
Heidi
★Book4
★Narration5
Ei yhtä mukaansa tempaava kuin Ylpeys ja ennakkoluulo, mutta vanhan ajan sympaattista charmia ja psykologista tarkkanäköisyyttä ja kaunista kieltä
Sari
★Book3
★Narration5
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