Emma

Emma Woodhouse, young, rich and sure of her judgement, has made a pastime of arranging the marriages around her. Convinced she is working for the happiness of others, she guides a friend of no fortune and reads everyone's intentions in her own way. Her arrangements slowly turn against the people they were meant to serve, and against herself. The novel explores self-deception, differences of rank in an English village, and the passage from certainty to doubt. Austen conducts a social comedy in which irony patiently corrects its heroine.