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4 de 5 estrellas ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (me ha encantado)
Una obra maestra que refleja de maravilla la sociedad de la época
Emma es una joven mimada que vive con su padre y que pretende no casarse nunca pero le encanta que lo hagan los demás y si es por su tarea de celestina todavía disfruta más.
Esta novela es costumbrista y está hecha para deleitarse con los detalles, con las conversaciones, con los eventos sociales y con la psicología de los personajes.
Creo que a día de hoy la autora no escribiría ese final, creo que sería muy distinto pero hay que entender que, en la época en la que lo escribió era lo más coherente, aceptable y exitoso.
Hay muy buenos personajes, quizás lo que más odia Emma son los que más me gustan a mi, en especial la Señorita Bates, que manera de hablar y que desparpajo!
Es una novela para leer con calma y disfrutar de los pequeños detalles, no tiene más que eso pero se disfruta muchísimo conociendo los entramados sociales, los valores de la época y por supuesto se disfruta de la pluma de la Austen

Fifth read: July 1-5, 2020

i swear every time i finish this novel i feel bereft. you get to know the characters and their world so intimately, become so absolutely absorbed and invested in their fates, that the end of their story almost feels like a loss. regardless, Emma is an absolute delight. ive said it once and ill say it again: my love for this novel knows no bounds.

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Fourth read: August 28, September 2 2019

all of this book's characters are like my lil family. i love them all so much

Jane Austen famously wrote: "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like."

My initial take: Truer words, Jane. Truer words. Emma is wealthy and beautiful, the queen bee of society in her town, and boss of her household (since her father is a hand-wringing worrywart, almost paralyzed by his fears). She’s prideful, self-satisfied and convinced she knows best, not just for herself but for pretty much everyone in her circle. When Emma decides she’s got a gift for matchmaking, trouble soon follows.





But.

On reread, I realized that Emma is a better character than I previously gave her credit for (of course, Mrs Elton makes any other woman look like a saint). She’s intelligent and essentially kindhearted, she has almost endless patience with her exasperating father, and she’s not so proud that she isn’t able to learn from her mistakes and even take a little criticism to heart.

Not a whole lot happens in Emma, plotwise. It takes place in a small town among a limited group of people; nobody is saving the world or doing anything earth-shaking. But Jane Austen has a gift for creating a vivid world of memorable people, and drawing believable characters both wise and foolish ... and the wealthy people can be just as silly and blind as the poverty-stricken ones. Emma learns and grows over the course of the novel, and ends up quite a bit wiser than when she started.

Jane Austen is very cognizant of the different classes of society, even in a village. There’s no real criticism of that from Austen here; in fact, a lot of trouble results when Emma tries to pull her friend Harriet from a lower sphere of society into her own, higher one. It would have been nice to see more challenges to the assumption that everyone should stay and marry in their own class. There’s amazingly insightful social commentary in Emma but ultimately not much movement ... except within the heart and mind of Emma herself. And maybe that’s enough, for this particular story from this particular day and age.

April 2017 reread/group read with Catching Up on the Classics.

Emma woodhouse changes from being vain and self satisfied, blind to her own feelings and dangerously insensitive to the feelings of others, in a slow, painful progress towards maturity.

Remained boring AF.

if I loved this book less, I might be able to talk about it more.

“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich” she is the moment

Actual rating 4.5/5 stars.

Over the course of the year I have slowly been rereading, or reading for the first time, Miss Austen's works. I am so mad at myself for not getting to this one sooner! Nothing will quite compare to the silly but brilliant creation that is Northanger Abbey but this might just be a close second favourite.

Emma is, like much of Austen's other creations, an intricate character study on a set of largely upper-class individuals. Romance sparks, blossoms, and dies repeatedly throughout the course of their interactions and these are mostly fuelled or extinguished on the whims of the title character.

Emma was a flawed character and yet, somehow, still an entirely lovable one. Her growth throughout the novel was one I heavily rooted for and it was a joy to witness her blossoming over the course of 500 pages. She did not read like the typical literary heroine for me and yet I was yearning for her to become so. Her setbacks and self-sabotage were as infuriating as they were intriguing and brought wit, emotion, dismay, and delight to this novel, in equal measure.

I can't do it! I can't finish it! I keep trying to get into Jane Austen's stuff and I just can't make it further than 150 pages or so. Everything seems so predictable and sooooo long-winded. I feel like she is the 19th century John Grisham. You know there's a good story line in there somewhere, and if you could edit out 60% of the words it would be fantastic. Sorry to all the Jane Austen fans-you inspired me to try one more time and I failed!

I just adored this on a reread - hilarious, clever and wonderful.