(Borrowed from the Jackson Heights library) Another one of the 100 books I'm supposed to read before I die according to the BBC. I did not enjoy this one as much as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility which were more complex. Emma begins as a terrible snob who misleads herself and her friend Harriet in love among the middle-class country gentry. But she turns out to be a repentant ex-matchmaker after her brother-in-law Knightley sets her right. I enjoyed talkative Miss Bates and Mrs. Eston whose lengthly monologues on everything from appropriate behavior to furniture to horses were very funny. Mr. Woodhouse, Emma's father, is a delightful fussbudget who dreads taking a step outside of their house. A classic portrait of a young woman who thinks she knows everything learning the value of true friendship and maturity.
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