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Emma
When your bestie tells you 'badly done' and you know they're right. Emma, 1815. 🫣
Who it's for
Emma is clever, kind at heart and badly overconfident, and Austen's close narration lets the reader share her misreadings before seeing them fail.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Emma is Jane Austen's novel, published in December 1815 by John Murray, and is set in the fictional Surrey village of Highbury. Emma Woodhouse, clever and wealthy, believes she has a talent for matchmaking and tries to pair her new friend Harriet Smith with the vicar, Mr Elton, against the advice of her neighbour Mr Knightley.
Where to find it
Public domain in the US; free on Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, with free LibriVox audiobooks. Also widely in print (Penguin Classics, Oxford World's Classics and others), in libraries (Libby/.
Before you start
Age: Ages 12+
One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings;W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 1
