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Emma

Jane Austen

Start date: June 15, 2016

Finish date: July 14, 2016

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Jan 27, 2017 Christine PNW rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2024, read-my-hoard-2024, vintage-women

This was excellent in audio format, and gave me a whole new perspective on Emma and, more notably, on Jane Fairfax. I've always been ambivalent about Jane, and with this slow read I've really come around. I wish we'd gotten more Jane.

I also, even, came around to the Frank Churchill/Jane Fairfax pairing. She is too good for him, but I'm convinced at this point that he knows it and that his knowing it will make him a better man. He's not quite so shallow as I believed.

Mrs. Elton remains screamingl ...more

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Dec 15, 2013 Christine rated it really liked it

Shelves: library-books, romance-lovers-challenge-2014, radio-bbc-4, read-in-2014, audiobooks, historical-fiction, british-literature, freebiez, authors-a-to-d, chubby-chunkster

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1. Emma Woodhouse is a woman so blessed by life that she declares she will never marry.

2. A ball, a picnic and a marriage proposal. ...more

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