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I found this very hard going. I enjoyed the first and third sections but the middle section really dragged. I have read Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility and Persuasion and loved them all. I know the story of Emma through films and TV dramatisations. I found Emma a very annoying character although there was a lot of development throughout the book and she became sort of endearing by the end. I enjoyed some of the humour but some of the Miss Bates soliloquies went on too long for me and I fo
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Patience is required when reading Jane Austen, never so much as in reading Emma. Ms. Austen doesn't get in a hurry, and if you are to enjoy Emma, as I thoroughly did, the reader mustn't get impatient. I admit to acquiring this patience only after the first 50 or so pages, and I was greatly rewarded for its acquisition. Relationships and characters develop at not so much a leisurely pace, as a evolved one. Emma is quite the exasperating young woman, full of herself, her position, and her sense of
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This and Northanger Abbey are my 2 least favorite books of Autens. I know it is a good look into the life aof a well off, matchmaking, gossiping girl with out a care in the world, but I just found Emmas dialogue to much to take sometimes. But at the same time here again you have to give kudos to Austen for writing a character that brings out this emotion in the reader.
Wow! How wonderful that society has changed. The attitudes of "class" reminded me of high school cliches. Writing styles have changed too. I would have liked more description in some chapters. I still enjoyed this book.
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This is my favorite austen's, emma the matchmaker, so funny, kind, witty, charming, you never get enough of her.Austen's heroines are all unforgetable, and emma just add a juicy character.
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