Emma Woodhouse is clever, comfortable, and utterly certain of her own gift for matchmaking — right up until every match she engineers starts quietly falling apart, and the one relationship she never thought to examine turns out to be the one that matters most. Jane Austen's Emma is her most perfectly constructed comedy of manners: a novel of misread intentions, well-meaning meddling, and a heroine so convinced of her own judgment that she's the last person in Highbury to see the truth in front of her. Sharp, funny, and quietly wise about how little any of us really know about love — including our own. Austen at the absolute height of her wit and craft. Widely considered Austen's most technically accomplished novelA comedy of manners built on misdirection and self-discoveryOne of literature's great "she's the last to know" romances She arranged everyone else's happy ending. She never saw her own coming.
